A few answer to frequently questions:
Q. Where is XEDIT/RDRLIST/PEEK, etc?
A. You probably are remembering VM/SP which was IBM's The code here is derived from its predecessor, the free VM/370 which did not have these items. For of these some replacements have been written, so there is a full screen editor "EE," but no replacements for PEEK. Type 'HELP' and press Enter to see what help is available for VM/370.
Q. I see the following message on my console. What do I do?
DMKWRM920I NO WARM START DATA; CKPT START FOR RETRY
Start ((Warm|Force|COLD|CKPT) (DRain) (DIsable) (NOAUTOlo)) or (SHUTDOWN):
A. VM/370 did not shut down cleanly, so the spool file area may be corrupted. Try the following in succession:
/CKPT
/FORCE
/COLD
Q. What does LLNN-NNNN-N mean?
A.
LL: Two-letter prefix indicating the type and category of the publication.
????SC: System Component
????GA: General Availability (standard manual)
????GC: General Component (component reference)
????SA: System Administration
????LY: Licensed documentation
????SR: Service Reference
NN-NNNNN: A unique identifier number for the specific document or product.
N: A suffix digit that usually represents the version, edition, or release level.
Q. Where is XEDIT/RDRLIST/PEEK, etc?
A. You probably are remembering VM/SP which was IBM's The code here is derived from its predecessor, the free VM/370 which did not have these items. For of these some replacements have been written, so there is a full screen editor "EE," but no replacements for PEEK. Type 'HELP' and press Enter to see what help is available for VM/370.
Q. I see the following message on my console. What do I do?
DMKWRM920I NO WARM START DATA; CKPT START FOR RETRY
Start ((Warm|Force|COLD|CKPT) (DRain) (DIsable) (NOAUTOlo)) or (SHUTDOWN):
A. VM/370 did not shut down cleanly, so the spool file area may be corrupted. Try the following in succession:
/CKPT
/FORCE
/COLD
Q. What does LLNN-NNNN-N mean?
A.
LL: Two-letter prefix indicating the type and category of the publication.
????SC: System Component
????GA: General Availability (standard manual)
????GC: General Component (component reference)
????SA: System Administration
????LY: Licensed documentation
????SR: Service Reference
NN-NNNNN: A unique identifier number for the specific document or product.
N: A suffix digit that usually represents the version, edition, or release level.