IBM Programming Support Packages for NSW (National Software Works)
Neil Ludlam, Robert Braden, Lou Rivas, Denis De La Roca · 1980
Abstract : This report covers technical development at UCLA relating to the National Software Works (NSW) during 1977. It is combination of the two Semi- annual Technical Reports coverings the periods of January 1 through June 30 and July 1 through December 31 of 1977. The primary goal of the NSW project at UCLA is to make the IBM Operating System OS/MVT, and specifically its implementation on the UCLA IBM 360/91, a tool-bearing host within the NSW. This report is specifically concerned with the subroutine packages that we have developed to implement system interfaces and the various levels of the NSW Transaction Protocol (NSWTP) under OS/MVT. Not only do these packages ease design and programming, but they normalize the interface between a program on the UCLA machine that is acting as an NSW process and the remote components of NSW, and they localize future maintenance activities. Subsequent of the report document specific subroutine packages. Each section corresponds to a document stored in the NSW documentation repository maintained by the NSW Operations Contractor, so each section has been made self-contained. For example, each section has its own table of contents and reference summary, and each section is independently paginated.