Products, Manuals, and Procedures
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Documentation Format
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Documentation Security
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ACCESS for DB2
ACCESS for DB2 is a editor for DB2 data bases. Browse, edit and join tables at will.
ACF2
ACF2.
ALTER for DB2
ALTER for DB2 is an ISPF-based software product which works in combination with your DB2 system to facilitate alteration, duplication and/or migration of DB2 data structures.
ASSIST/TS
ASSIST manages the display and maintenance of CICS help screen overlays without any modifications to the application program.
BMS/TS
BMS/TS is a basic mapping support screen generator, from GT/SOFTWARE.
CATALOG MANAGER
CATALOG MANAGER provides interactive access to DB2 catalog information and application data with easy-to-use menus, panels and online Help.
CICS
CICS is the industry standard for transactional processing
COBOL
COBOL is the primary high-level language in use at the NWRDC
CONTROL-M
CONTROL M automates virtually all the job handling tasks of computer operators.
DB2
DB2, IBM's premiere relational data base.
DB2 Connect
DB2 Connect is a gateway from the distributed platforms to DB2 on the mainframe.
Easytrieve
Easytrieve is an information retrieval and data management system designed to simplify programming. Its English-like language and simple declarative statements provide the tools needed to produce comprehensive reports with ease.
FDR FATS/FATR
Fast Dump Restore (FDR), the name says it all. FDR provides easy backup and restore for data sets and DASD volumes.
DEBUG is an interactive debug tool that allows programmers to monitor the execution of programs.
IOF
The Interactive Output Facility (IOF) provides a comprehensive interface to the JES2 subsystem (jobs and printed output).
IPT-SPIFFY
SPIFFY is a TSO/ISPF add-on. It provides many features not present in ISPF and it facilitates the use of existing ISPF functions by eliminating menu navigation.
ISPF VSAM Utility
ISPF/VSAM Utility provides on-line access (through ISPF) to the most often used VSAM manipulation normally done with IDCAMS batch processing.
Log Analyzer for DB2
Log Analyzer is DB2 software which allows retrieval of information from log records.
MOVE for DB2
Move for DB2 is the relational copy facility component of Princeton SofTech's Relational Tools. It is used to migrate relationally intact sets of data from multiple source tables to corresponding destination tables.
PANVALET is a central library facility that can store source programs, object programs, Job control streams and Data files.
QuickRef
MVS/Quick-Ref is an online programmer's reference that provides access to a summary of frequently used MVS and other reference materials.
SAS
The Statistical Analysis System (SAS) is modular integrated application systems software that llows developers and users to access, manage, analyze and present data from virtually any source.
Shadow Direct
Shadow Direct provides ODBC connections to DB2.
Shadow Web
Shadow Web is a full function Web Server deployed as an z/OS started task.
Fault Analyzer
Fault Analyzer is an IBM tool that captures the programming environment at the time of an ABEND.
SyncSort
SyncSort is a high speed replacement for the IBM SORT program.
TXT2PDF
TXT2PDF (Text to Portable Document Format (PDF)) is z/OS freeware that converts a text file to a PDF document.
zOS
zOS release 1.13 is the current operating system in use on the NWRDC mainframe.