MVS and UNIX : A Survival Handbook for Multi-Platform Users, Developers and Managers

Name: MVS and UNIX : A Survival Handbook for Multi-Platform Users, Developers and Managers
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ISBN: 9780070066632

ISBN-10: 0070066639

ISBN-13: 9780070066632

Edition: 1998

Authors: Richard J. Bambara

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Many mainframes are now being connected to UNIX network operating systems. This book provides users, developers and managers with a guide to using the three major UNIX platforms - AIX, Solaris and HP-UX.

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List price: $65.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, The
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 608
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xxi
Overview of Each Operating System	p. 1
What Is an Operating System?	p. 1
UNIX System V Features	p. 1
The MVS Operating System	p. 2
Philosophy	p. 3
Comparison of System Architecture	p. 3
Memory Management	p. 4
Real Storage	p. 5
Auxiliary Storage	p. 5
Paging and Swapping	p. 5
Networking	p. 6
Software	p. 6
The TCP/IP Model	p. 6
The OSI/ISO Model	p. 8
SNA (System Network Architecture)	p. 8
Device Management	p. 11
Disk Space Allocation	p. 12
Data Access Methods	p. 12
Summary	p. 13
Hardware (CPU, Memory, I/O, Network)	p. 15
CPU and Other Processors	p. 15
Symmetric Multiprocessors	p. 16
Memory (Real and Virtual)	p. 16
Real Memory	p. 16
Virtual Memory	p. 17
Disks	p. 17
Mainframe DASD (Direct Access Storage Devices)	p. 18
UNIX and Workstation Disks (SCSI Technology)	p. 21
Network	p. 23
Bridges	p. 23
Routers	p. 26
Gateways	p. 27
Ethernet	p. 28
Token Ring	p. 30
Summary	p. 30
System and User Interfaces	p. 33
Sockets	p. 33
What Is a Socket?	p. 33
Domain	p. 34
Type	p. 35
Protocol	p. 35
Creating a Socket Using socketpair()	p. 35
Creating a Socket Using socket()	p. 36
Naming Your Socket with bind()	p. 36
Defining a Remote Socket--connect()	p. 37
Sending Data to a Named Socket--sendto()	p. 38
Receiving Data on a Named Socket--recvfrom()	p. 38
Closing of a Socket	p. 39
Creating a Listen-only Socket Connection Endpoint--listen()	p. 39
Establishing a Connection by Server--accept()	p. 40
Transferring Data over Connected Sockets--send() and recv()	p. 40
Socket Summary	p. 41
Threads	p. 42
What Is a Thread?	p. 42
Creating Threads	p. 42
Types of Threads (POSIX and Sun Solaris)	p. 43
Thread Implementation	p. 45
Synchronization	p. 49
Thread Summary	p. 50
The RPC (Remote Procedure Call)	p. 50
Introduction	p. 50
How Does the RPC Work?	p. 50
RPC Synchronization	p. 51
RPC Complications	p. 51
RPC Implementation	p. 54
Different Flavors of the RPC	p. 54
Sample Sun ONC RPC Implementation	p. 56
Variations in Call/Response Behavior	p. 68
Portability and Interoperability of RPC Applications	p. 68
Server Run-time Support	p. 69
Protocol	p. 69
RPC Summary	p. 70
Summary	p. 71
Native TSO and the UNIX Shell	p. 73
What Are the Similarities?	p. 73
Initialization	p. 73
Clists and Shell Scripts	p. 88
Order of Search for Execution	p. 90
Controlling I/O	p. 94
Summary	p. 96
ISPF	p. 97
What Is ISPF?	p. 97
ISPF Tools	p. 98
The ISPF Editor	p. 98
ISPF Utilities	p. 112
Uni-SPF (ISPF for UNIX)	p. 113
ISPF and the Future	p. 115
The New Panel Format	p. 115
Installing the GUI (Graphical User Interface)	p. 117
Starting the GUI from Your PC	p. 118
Summary	p. 122
Understanding the KornShell	p. 125
Filesystem Organization and Processes	p. 125
The UNIX Filesystem Architecture	p. 125
Understanding Processes	p. 130
Using Shell Commands	p. 134
Executing Basic Commands	p. 136
Setting and Displaying Options	p. 138
Setting Your Terminal Control Keys	p. 139
Defining Aliases	p. 140
Reusing Previous Commands	p. 143
Controlling the Flow of Input and Output (Redirection)	p. 145
Pipelines and Filters	p. 148
Making Use of Tilde Expansion	p. 149
Using Wildcards for Pathname Expansion	p. 150
Timing Commands (How Much Time Do They Use?)	p. 151
Understanding Shell Parameters	p. 153
Using Quotes and Special Characters	p. 154
Your Working Directory	p. 154
How Does ksh Locate a Command?	p. 155
Performing Command Substitution	p. 156
Executing Commands in Background	p. 156
UNIX Job Control	p. 159
Command Line Loops (if, while, select, and for)	p. 161
Shell Programming	p. 162
Creating and Executing Shell Scripts	p. 162
Passing Parameters to Your Script	p. 164
Understanding Parameters and Parameter Modification	p. 164
Additional Information on Using Quotes	p. 167
Opening and Closing Files	p. 169
The Read Command	p. 170
Directing Your Output	p. 172
Reading Input from Within Your Script	p. 172
Return Codes	p. 173
Combining Commands	p. 174
Using Compound Commands	p. 177
Arithmetic Expressions	p. 181
Defining Arrays	p. 184
Building and Using Menus	p. 186
Trapping Interrupts	p. 187
Processing Arguments in Your Script	p. 187
Using Dot Scripts	p. 188
Matching Patterns	p. 189
Defining and Using Functions	p. 190
Improving Performance with Auto-Load Functions	p. 192
Understanding Functions and Aliases	p. 193
Debugging Your Scripts	p. 194
Summary	p. 196
The vi Editor	p. 197
Introduction to vi	p. 197
History of vi	p. 197
Mode of Operation	p. 198
Correcting Text as You Insert It	p. 198
Command Case	p. 199
The Work Buffer	p. 199
Abnormal Termination of an Editing Session	p. 199
Recovering Text After a Crash	p. 200
The Display	p. 200
The Status Line	p. 200
The @ Symbol	p. 200
The ~ Symbol	p. 201
Command Mode--Moving the Cursor	p. 201
Moving the Cursor by Characters	p. 202
Moving the Cursor by Words	p. 202
Moving the Cursor by Lines	p. 204
Moving the Cursor by Sentences and Paragraphs	p. 204
Moving the Cursor Within the Current Screen	p. 204
Viewing Different Areas of the File Being Edited	p. 205
Editing Modes	p. 206
The Insert Command	p. 206
The Append Command	p. 206
The Insert Line Commands or Open Commands	p. 207
The Replace Mode (Overwriting Text)	p. 207
Command Mode--Deleting and Changing Text	p. 208
The Undo Command	p. 208
The Delete Character Command	p. 208
The Delete Command	p. 210
The Change Command	p. 211
Finding a String (Searching)	p. 212
The Search Commands	p. 212
Special Characters in Search Strings	p. 213
Replacing One String with Another (Substitution)	p. 214
Address in the Substitute Command	p. 214
Find and Replace (Better Known as Search and Replace)	p. 215
Copy, Cut, and Paste Text (or Put, Delete, and Yank)	p. 216
The General Purpose Buffer	p. 216
Named Buffers	p. 217
Other Useful Commands	p. 218
The Join Command	p. 218
The Status Command	p. 218
The . (Dot) Command	p. 218
Reading and Writing Files	p. 219
The Read Command	p. 219
The Write Command	p. 219
Setting Parameters	p. 220
Setting Parameters While Already in vi	p. 220
Setting Parameters in a Start-up File	p. 220
Parameters	p. 221
Advanced Editing Techniques	p. 224
Using Markers	p. 224
Editing Other Files	p. 224
Executing Shell Commands from vi	p. 225
Measuring Units of Text	p. 226
Character	p. 226
Word	p. 227
Blank Delimited Word	p. 227
Line	p. 227
Sentence	p. 228
Paragraph	p. 228
Screen	p. 229
Repeat Factor	p. 229
Summary	p. 229
Starting vi	p. 229
Moving the Cursor by Units of Measure	p. 229
Moving Through Different Parts of the Work Buffer	p. 230
Adding Text	p. 230
Deleting and Changing Text	p. 231
Copying and Pasting Text (Yanking and Putting)	p. 231
Finding a String (or Searching)	p. 232
Replacing Text (String Substitution)	p. 232
Advanced Commands	p. 232
MVS Utilities and Their UNIX Equivalents	p. 233
MVS Base Utilities	p. 233
IEBCOMPR (Compare Datasets [Files])	p. 233
IEBCOPY (Functional Equivalent of the UNIX copy Utility for PDSs and PDSEs)	p. 234
IEBDG (Generate Test Data)	p. 235
IEBGENER (Functional Equivalent of the UNIX cat Utility)	p. 235
IEBUPDTE	p. 236
IEHINITT (Tape Label Initialization)	p. 236
IEHLIST (Functional Equivalent of the UNIX Is Utility)	p. 237
DFSMSdss (Data Facility System Managed Storage Dataset Services)	p. 237
IDCAMS (Access Method Services)	p. 238
Catalogs Versus Filesystems	p. 238
The MVS Catalog Structure	p. 239
UNIX Filesystem Structure	p. 240
Dataset Types	p. 241
Partitioned Datasets	p. 242
Sequential Datasets	p. 242
VSAM Dataset	p. 243
OpenEdition Hierarchical File System	p. 243
Summary	p. 243
UNIX Utilities	p. 245
Data Display and Manipulation Utilities	p. 245
cat--Concatenate and Display Files	p. 246
cp--Copying Files	p. 248
mv--Rename a File	p. 250
diff--Compare Two Files and Show the Differences	p. 252
more--Display a File One Screen at a Time	p. 258
tail--Display a File (Starting from the Bottom)	p. 261
find--Locate Files	p. 264
sort	p. 269
rm--Remove a File or Files, Including Directories and Links	p. 281
rmdir--Remove a Directory	p. 283
ls--Listing Files in a Directory	p. 284
lp--Printing Files	p. 289
lpr--Printing Files	p. 291
grep--Search for a Pattern	p. 291
wc--Count Words, Lines, and Characters	p. 295
Communication Utilities	p. 296
mail	p. 296
mailx	p. 299
mesg	p. 304
System Administration Utilities	p. 305
mount/umount--Mount and Unmount a Filesystem	p. 305
fsck--Filesystem Check	p. 307
nice--Alter the Priority of a Process	p. 310
Security Utilities	p. 311
chmod	p. 311
chown	p. 314
chgrp	p. 315
newgrp	p. 316
umask--Establish Default File Creation Permissions	p. 318
Operations Control Utilities	p. 319
ps--Displaying Running Processes	p. 319
kill--Cancel a Job	p. 323
lpstat--Examine Printer Queues	p. 325
ping--Testing Communications	p. 326
df--Monitoring Disk Space	p. 327
who--Which Users Are on the System	p. 328
Programmer Development Utilities	p. 329
cc--Compiling Your C Programs	p. 329
make--Control Your Development	p. 332
touch--Update the Modification Time on a File	p. 338
Scheduling Utilities	p. 339
crontab--The User crontab File	p. 339
crontab Access Control	p. 340
crontab Entry Format	p. 340
at--Execute a Shell Script at a Time You Specify	p. 342
Other Useful Utilities	p. 344
cal--Display a Calendar	p. 344
echo--Display a Message	p. 346
sh, csh, ksh--Setting Your Shell	p. 347
Summary	p. 348
System Performance	p. 349
The UNIX SAR Utility	p. 349
Understanding SAR	p. 350
Monitoring the System Resources	p. 353
CPU and Memory	p. 353
DASD (Disk Utilization)	p. 360
Network	p. 368
Determining the Process States	p. 380
ps Command Format	p. 381
Running, Waiting, Swapped In/Out	p. 385
Parent and Child Proesses (Jobs Which Depend on Each Other)	p. 386
Who Is Allocating Your Devices?	p. 387
DASD	p. 388
Terminals	p. 389
Long-Term Trend Analysis	p. 389
The System Accounting Facility	p. 389
Developing a Performance Agenda	p. 390
Overhead	p. 391
Summary	p. 392
Compilers	p. 393
Compiling Your Program	p. 393
A Sample C Compile Session	p. 393
Code Compatibility	p. 404
What Languages Should We Utilize?	p. 405
Summary	p. 405
CICS and On-Line Transaction Processing	p. 407
CICS/6000 Architecture	p. 407
The Distributed Computing Environment	p. 407
The Remote Procedure Call	p. 408
The Name Service	p. 409
The Time Service	p. 409
The Security Service	p. 410
The Thread Service	p. 410
The Distributed Filesystem	p. 410
Encina Transaction Processing Services	p. 410
The Distributed Transaction Service	p. 410
The Transactional Remote Procedure Call	p. 411
The X/Open Transaction Manager	p. 411
The Recovery Service	p. 412
The Volume Service	p. 412
The Log Service	p. 412
The Locking Service	p. 412
The Transactional-C Component	p. 412
The Encina Structured File Server	p. 412
The Encina Peer-to-Peer Communications Service	p. 413
CICS/6000 Structure	p. 413
Object-Oriented Design Methodology	p. 413
Interprocess Communications	p. 414
Client/Server Architecture	p. 414
CICS/6000 Memory Usage	p. 415
CICS/6000 Initialization	p. 417
The Region Database	p. 417
Initializing the Application Manager	p. 418
Recovery During Restart	p. 420
Client-Server Interaction	p. 421
Terminal Interfaces	p. 421
Programming Interfaces	p. 421
The Process Model	p. 422
CICS/6000 in a Distributed Environment	p. 423
Summary	p. 425
DB2 Common Server	p. 427
Introduction	p. 427
The Business Environment for DB2 Common Server	p. 428
DB2 Product Line	p. 430
DB2 Common Server	p. 431
Overview	p. 431
Relational Support: Structural Features	p. 431
Relational Support: Manipulative Features	p. 433
Relational Support: Integrity Features	p. 434
Performance Features	p. 435
Server Architecture	p. 436
DB2 Parallel Edition	p. 437
Data Distribution Facilities	p. 438
Distributed Database Connection Services (DDCS)	p. 439
World Wide Web Connection	p. 439
DataJoiner	p. 439
DataRefresher	p. 440
DataPropagator	p. 441
Administrative Facilities	p. 443
Utilities	p. 443
DB2 Visual Explain	p. 443
DB2 Performance Monitor	p. 444
DataHub	p. 444
Development Tools	p. 444
Overview	p. 445
VisualAge	p. 445
VisualAge for Smalltalk	p. 446
VisualAge for C++	p. 446
VisualAge for COBOL	p. 446
VisualAge Generator	p. 446
TeamConnection	p. 447
DB2 DataBasic	p. 447
End-User Tools	p. 448
Intelligent Decision Server (IDS)	p. 448
Approach	p. 449
Summary	p. 449
Porting Data Across Platforms (or Using the Network)	p. 451
The Sneaker Net	p. 451
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)	p. 452
FTP and MVS	p. 452
FTP and UNIX	p. 457
Telnet	p. 460
Establishing a Telnet Session	p. 460
The tar Utility	p. 461
Syntax	p. 461
Option Parameters	p. 462
Operands	p. 462
Function Control Characters (Options)	p. 462
Function Modifiers	p. 463
Sample Usage	p. 466
Summary	p. 470
The User Environment	p. 471
Introduction	p. 471
History File	p. 471
Login Environment (Profile)	p. 472
Environment File	p. 476
Customizing Your Prompt	p. 477
Changing Your Working Directory	p. 478
Improving Shell Performance	p. 478
Your Terminal	p. 480
The TERM Variable	p. 480
CDE (the Common Desktop Environment)	p. 480
What Is CDE?	p. 481
Why Consider CDE?	p. 482
Summary	p. 482
Job and Process Control	p. 483
Submitting and Scheduling Your Jobs	p. 483
JCL (JOB, EXEC, and DD Card)	p. 483
Submitting Jobs on MVS	p. 485
UNIX Jobs	p. 486
Displaying Your Jobs	p. 486
Displaying Your Jobs on MVS	p. 487
Displaying Your Jobs on UNIX	p. 489
Troubleshooting	p. 490
Tools of the Troubleshooter	p. 490
Debugging	p. 491
Debugging on MVS Systems	p. 492
Debugging on UNIX Systems	p. 492
What Is a Process?	p. 493
Summary	p. 495
Pros and Cons of Each Platform	p. 497
Administration	p. 497
Costs	p. 498
What Has Transpired as a Result of This?	p. 498
Maintenance	p. 498
Hardware	p. 499
Software	p. 499
Network	p. 500
Where Are We Heading?	p. 501
Servers and Clients	p. 501
The End User	p. 501
The Internet and the Intranet	p. 502
New Applications	p. 505
Summary	p. 506
Appendix	p. 507
Index	p. 511
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