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The Lounge War Stories Time travel Post 302713153 by bakunin on Wednesday 10th of October 2012 10:28:05 AM

10-10-2012

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Only now i got it: "IOS", not "I OS". Actually this is not a mainframe but a midrange system, just like the p-series - in fact it is the same hardware.

This system was formerly called "AS/400" and the OS "OS/400" and you will find probably a lot more under these terms than under "IOS". Most of it, even the most outdated information, will probably still apply because the system hasn't changed that much for the last 20 years.

The AS/400 is quite radically different from anyother machine (for instance it has a linear address space which spans memory AND disk space - you move a file and it is dumped from memory to disk) and getting around the concepts is probably quite hard first.

On the other hand the AS/400 is famous for needing next to no administration at all. There are many companies owning a AS/400 and having had no Sysadmin for the last 15 years. Try that with a Unix system, it would be long broken.

The network is an alien thing too: it is called 5250 and works similar to (but is still different from) the SNA system and the 3270 data stream the IBM mainframes use.

Now for the good news: because IOS systems work in p-Series hardware there are still VIOS and HMC and they work absolutely the same way as you are accustomed to. Just the LPARs running IOS are different (inside - they are still the same LPARs from outside, say, from the viewpoint of the VIOS or the HMC).

I hope this helps.

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machid(1)						      General Commands Manual							 machid(1)

NAME

       machid: hp9000s200, hp9000s300, hp9000s400, hp9000s500, hp9000s700, hp9000s800, hp-mc680x0, hp-pa, pdp11, u370, u3b, u3b10, u3b2, u3b5, vax
       - provide truth value about processor type

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       The following commands return a true value (exit code 0) if the a processor type matches the command name.  Otherwise a false  value  (exit
       code  nonzero)  is returned.  These commands are commonly used within makefiles and shell procedures to improve portability of applications
       (see make(1)).

				       +-----------+-------------------------++--------+--------------------------+
				       |Command    | True for		     ||Command | True for		  |
				       +-----------+-------------------------++--------+--------------------------+
				       |hp9000s200 | Series 200 	     ||pdp11   | PDP-11/45 or PDP-11/70   |
				       |hp9000s300 | Series 300 	     ||u3b     | 3B20 computer		  |
				       |hp9000s400 | Series 400 	     ||u3b2    | 3B2 computer		  |
				       |hp9000s500 | Series 500 	     ||u3b5    | 3B5 computer		  |
				       |hp9000s700 | Series 700 	     ||u3b10   | 3B10 computer		  |
				       |hp9000s800 | Series 800 or 700	     ||u370    | IBM System/370 computer  |
				       |hp-mc680x0 | Series 200, 300, or 400 ||vax     | VAX-11/750 or VAX-11/780 |
				       |hp-pa	   | Series 700 or 800	     ||        |			  |
				       +-----------+-------------------------++--------+--------------------------+
EXAMPLES

       Given a shell script that must behave differently when run on an HP 9000 Series 700 or 800 system, select the correct code  segment  to	be
       executed:

WARNINGS

       always  returns	true on both Series 800 and Series 700 systems.  Therefore, when using this command in scripts to determine hardware type,
       always use both and in the appropriate sequence to ensure correct results (see

       machid(1) will no longer provide support for future machines beyond the Series 800 and Series 700 systems.  Decisions should  be  based	on
       the hardware and software configuration information returned by getconf(1).

SEE ALSO

       getconf(1), make(1), sh(1), test(1), true(1).

																	 machid(1)