~ Monthly
license FQTK-On-Line Fare Quote/Ticketing $2,800
(DOS) 5736-Tll
FQTK Tariff Maintenance Feature 5,700 Fashion Reporter
Service Oass
B B
The Fashion Reporter provides a comprehensive retailer's inventory control system that produces management reports reflecting the activity and inventory status of merchandise in individual style or price-line categories.
Written in PL/l and RPG, the system can be run to produce either an update or a report output cycle. This lets the system be used daily or oftener to process transactions against the inventory fIle, while allowing' output report to be prepared weekly or on any other periodic basis specified by the user.
Specific output reports include: (1) a Oass/Priceline Sales Summary of styles grouped at the class level, showing weekly sales for the last six weeks, sales to date, on-order, on-hand, and in-sight class totals; (2) a Style Page showing a complete picture of a given style at any level, including all styles in a full department; (3) a Pre-Age Report that extracts and formats inventory records by department and class, with varying aging criteria; and (4) an Aging Report showing current on-hand balances by store distributed into user-specified aging periods; the dollar value of the quantities is calculated and accumulated, with class and department totals broken down by percentages for each aging period.
Fashion Reporter runs in a 24K partition under DOS or ooSNS. The minimum machine configuration includes one disk drive and four tape units. Basic manual: IBM Form GH20-0935. Filing and Source Data Entry Techniques for Easier Retrieval (FASTER)
F ASTER is available in a Low Core (LC) version for DOS and in Multitasking/multithreading (MT) versions for both DOS and OS. Essentially, FASTER is an Assembly-language data communications monitor intended primarily for fmancial industry applications using ISAM files. With the announcement of CICSNS, the FASTER family of products has largely been superseded (see Report 70E-491-02).
The entry-level LC version is a single-thread monitor that provides support to 1050, 2740 Modell, 2260, and 2265 terminals for line control, communications interface, and message processing functions.
The MT versions of FASTER are intended to provide growth paths for FASTER LC users, and essentially permit greater throughput by multitasking the user's application programs. Specific functional enhancements of the MT versions include 3270 Information Display System support, up to 7 concurrent transactions in DOS or 13 under OS, 15 priority levels, ISAM and DAM fIle support, direct linkage for Assembler and COBOL languages, improved audit trail data recording, etc. Financial Terminal System (FTS)
Monthly DOS data bases for user-written fmancial industry applications programs. The primary terminal devices supported are the 2740 typewriter-style terminal, the 2260 CRT, and the 2972 and 2980 banking terminals. Specific services provided by FTS include system error handling, master terminal support, 2260 paging, terminal network simulation for program development, system performance recording, terminal-status inquiry and orderly shutdown procedures. These services are provided by FTS for subtasks, terminals, storage, and individual applications programs.
FTS runs in a 48 K partition under DOS or ooSNS. The minimum machine configuration includes enough disk storage space for data base requirements and work areas, and one tape unit. Basic Manual: IBM Form GH20-0763.
Financial Terminal System - FTS
Generalized Information System, Version 2 (GIS/2) The GIS/2 system is written in Assembler language and has one basic module with 11 optional features. As a sort of
"super-RPG," GIS/2 provides a generalized high-level language to handle complex multi-fIle data requests with extensive logic and computational requirements. Data requests can be entered directly into the computer either on a batch basis or via a remote terminal. GIS/2 provides sets of generalized routines which enable data set creation, maintenance, and retrieval.
Basic GIS/2 is intended for retrieval functions on a batch basis against up to three SAM or ISAM OS data sets simultaneously. The 11 optional features provide for specific output reports, more complex conditional search or procedural logic, a GIS procedure library, a fde modification capability, arithmetic statements, count/sum/average statements, 16-fIle (or data set) support, teleprocessing support, a hierarchical fIle capability, fIle restructure/create, and edit/encode.
The GIS/2 user describes his new or existing fIles in a procedure that does not involve detailed programming.
These fIle descriptions enable the user to address the contents of his files by means of symbolic names. GIS/2 procedures specified by the user can link to non-GIS routines referenced in the procedure specification. User ~
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~ routines written in other languages, such as PL/l or COBOL, can have limited access to GIS/2 ftles. Access restrictions can be placed on sensitive data. An error trace capability provides selective recording of the occurrence of processing errors and the alternative actions to be taken.
Of particular interest is the GIS/2 DL/l Query Support Feature. Used it} conjunction with IM8-2 (requires 40K bytes), this feature allows GIS/2 operations to be per-formed upon IM8-type data bases as well as SAM a.,d {SAc\{
ftles. An additional 10K bytes is required for this interface.
An earlier version of GIS-available only as a full monolithic system with no options-has been superseded by GIS/2 but remains available. Improvements of GIS/2 over 1he earlier version include a throughput improvement of 2 to 3 times, HASP compatability for data communications support under MFT, and several internal data management improvements that give GIS/2 greater flexibility.
Basic GIS/2 runs in a 124 K partition or region under OS/MFT or MVT (or their VS counterparts). The minimum machine configuration includes three disk drives and one tape unit. Basic manual: IBM Form GH2G-0892.
GIS/l (OS) 5736-CXl GIS/2 (OS) 5734-XXI
Monthly license
$1,500 450-1,500 General-Purpose Simulation System (GPSS)
Service Oass
B B
GPSS is available in two main versions for either DOS or OS (or their VS counterparts). Written in Assembler language, both basic GPSS versions are designed to provide a general-purpose simulation language for modeling and examining systems in the engineering and management science domains. Facilities are provided to alter the application model so that optimal conditions can be identified, bottlenecks isolated, and the effects of delays determined. All parameters used by. GPSS are allowed to vary with time. The user typically prepares a logical and statistical model of his system, using block diagrams.
GPSS V is a major functional enhancement over the earlier GPSS Version 2. Specific enhancements include a PL/l interface, increased numbers of parameters for each transaction, byte- and single-precision floating point save values and matrices, free-form coding, extended indirect addressing capability, etc.
Either the OS or DOS versions of GPSS run in partitions or regions under OS or DOS (or their VS counterparts) in from 52K or 62K to 170K or 178K bytes for Version 2 or V, respectively. The minimum machine configurations are those for the standard operating systems; no additional disk or tape units are required for GPSS operation. Basic GPSS Version 2 manual: IBM Form GH20-4077. Basic GPSS V manual: IBM Form GH2G-0826.
GPSS Version 2 (DOS) 5736-XS 1 GPSS Version 2 (OS) 5734-XS 1 GPSS V (DOS) 5736-X53 GPSS V (OS) 5734-X52
Monthly license
$20 20 55 55
Service Oass
C B B B
Graphic Analysis of Three-Dimensional Data (GATD)
GATD is an interactive on-line graphic analysis program written in FORTRAN. It uses 1he 2250 Graphic Display Terminal to permit 1hree-dimensional data analysis by geologists, engineers, meteorologists, medical researchers, and others concerned with spatial, physical relationships.
Tne user specifies a numerical model of a three-dimensional surface through the Problem Language Analyzer (PLAN) language and interacts by means of the 2250's light pen to define or modify the mathematical surface model, make logical decisions based upon the display, and build contour maps, perspective diagrams, cross-sections, and "fence"
diagrams.
GATD runs in a 150K partition or region under OS/MFT or MVT (or their VS counterparts). The minimum machine configuration includes two 2311 Disk Drives and up to five tape units. Basic manual: IBM Form GH2G-0539.
Monthly license GATD-Graphic Analysis of Three- $300
Dimensional Data (OS) 5734-XX2 Health Care Support/Accounting System
Service Oass
C
Health Care Support/Data Communications Program Please refer to CICS, Report 70E-491-02.
Health Care Support/Electrocardiogram Analysis HCS/ECG Analysis provides batch processing of electro-cardiograms from user-provided digital tape. The tape must be in a special format, and data must be collected three leads at a time. Data is then processed four times to produce a 12-lead scalar analysis. In addition, a set of Frank orthogonal (XYZ) vectorcardiographic leads is collected for rhythm interpretation. The program has interfaces to pass charge information to either the Shared Hospital Account-ing System or the Health Care Support/Accounting System that runs under the Customer Information and Control System (CICS).
HCS/ECG Analysis is written in PL/l and Assembler language and operates as a batch job under the OOS or OS real or virtual storage operating systems. The OOS version requires a 70K DOS or 95K OS partition on a 360/40, 370/125, . or larger CPU. Under
00s,
1he DOS PL/l Optimizing Compiler is required; under OS, the PL/I-F Compiler is used. Also required is disk work space and (under OS) two disks for compiling and link-editing or (under DOS) two magnetic tape drives for compilation.Basic manual: IBM Form GH20-1249.
Health Care
Support/Electro-cardio~am(ECG)Analysis;
DOS - 5736-HI5, or OS - 5734-Hll
Monthly license
$350
Information Management System OMS)
Service Oass
B
Please refer to Report 70E-491-01 for full information.
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~ Interactive Training System and Course Structuring Feature
Please refer to IMS or CICS, Report 70E-491-01 or 70E-491-02, respectively.
Inventory Control
Please refer to Production Information Control System (PICS).
Law Enforcement Manpower Resource Allocation (LEMRAS)
LEMRAS is a police administration system that distributes patrols to answer calls for service. As requirements for police patrol visits are received, they are matched by this Assembler and FORTRAN IV language system against available resources, taking into account routine and other administrative requirements. With every dispatch, a history tile of call activity is built up on a geographical basis by time, thus allowing LEMRAS to forecast patrol require-ments and making it possible for police administrators to ready a sufficiency of resources in advance. Geographical statistics are kept for areas and street intersections, event recording is made for up to 20 types of events, and time records can be kept to the hour. Individual police work forces can consist of from 2 to 25 mobile units, up to 10 districts or precincts can be defined, and up to 10,000 blocks and 10,000 intersections can be referenced.
In addition to the basic task of allocating resources to calls, LEMRAS does forecasting through use of an exponential smoothing technique that weighs more heavily the most recent events. Other functions include reports on system statistics and statistical summaries of call delays.
LEMRAS runs on a minimum 65K DOS system and requires at least one 2311 Disk Drive. Basic manual: IBM Form GH2G-0629.
LEMRAS (DOS) 5736-Gli
Monthly license
$350 LEARN ATS-OS and LEARN ATS-OOS
Service Oass
c
LEARN ATS is available in OS and DOS versions. It assists users in learning the ATS/360 (Administrative Terminal System/360) language for use in source data entry, file maintenance, and text processing applications. The announced OS version runs only under Version I Level I of ATS/360 OS. The announced DOS version runs only under Version I Level 2 of ATS/360 DOS.
LEARN ATS has three major components: additional and modified macros for accessing ATS/360 from a terminal, eight lessons which present the instruction and are non-alterable ATS/360 special permanent storage docu-ments as well, and a student workbook. Every ATS/360 user has an ongoing educational program, and LEARN ATS can be used at every installed ATS location. LEARN A TS is written in either OS or DOS Assembler. Under DOS, LEARN ATS uses the console interrupt key to call for cessation of ATS/360 peripheral functions. Therefore, DOS background programs that use the console interrupt key or operator-initiated messages cannot run while ATS/360 is running. Otherwise, multiprogramming is fully supported.
LEARN ATS-OS runs under control of the OS version of ATS/360, and thus requires the identical system configura-tion. Additionally, 300 bytes are added to the ATS/36G-OS supervisor, and five tracks of 2311 or four tracks of 2314 disk storage are required. The new programs under ATS conform to the ATS standard of requiring less than 8K.
ATS/36G-OS allows up to 60 application programs. The minimum ATS/36G-OS configuration is the OS require-ments plus 22,528 bytes of dynamic storage plus space for QSAM (queued sequential access method), a multiplexer and a selector channel, a console printer-keyboard, two 2311 or one 2314 Disk Drive, a 270X communications controller, and a 2741 Communications Terminal with a Courier 72-type print ball. One magnetic tape drive is needed for system generation.
The basic requirements for DOS are similar, with the minimum CPU storage set at 64K; but that small size could preclude use of some ATS/360 DOS document transmission functions. Basic manuals: IBM Forms GH2G-0745-1 (OS) and GH2G-0746-1 (DOS).
LEARN ATS-OS 5734-XX8 LEARN ATS-DOS 5736-XX3
Monthly license
$40 40 MATH/BASIC for System/3 and ITF/360
Service Oass
B B
MATH/BASIC is a set of conversational routines for use by persons not oriented toward data processing to obtain solutions to the most frequently encountered mathematical problems in science and industry. It consists of 40 routines that provide computing capabilities in the areas of: linear equations and matrix eigenvalue problems, zeros or polynomials and zeros and minima or functions, quadrature and differentation, interpolation, approximation, smooth-ing, ordinary differential equations, fast Fourier transforms, and special functions. No separate educational course is required; instructions are imbedded in the routines and the program reference manual.
MATH/BASIC is written in the BASIC language. On a System/3 Model 6, it will run in the minimum Basic problem-solving system, an 8K 5406 CPU with one disk drive and one 5213 Printer, plus the System/3 BASIC Program Product (5703-XMI).
On a System/360, MATH/BASIC runs under OS, DOS, or TSO (Time-Sharing Option) operating systems that have ITF (Interactive Terminal Facility) BASIC installed, or under ITF-PL/I if the BASIC programming language feature is installed.
Under ITF on a System/360, MATH/BASIC requires an ITF user area of 50K bytes. Short-precision floating-point arithmetic requires a symbol table of 9K bytes, while long precision requires 16,300 bytes. Also, space must be provided in the ITF library to store the MATH/BASIC routines. All terminals supported by ITF are supported by MATH/BASIC. The following table is a general indicator of required memory under different operating systems:
Operating System ITF-OS
ITF·DOS ITF·TSO
Minimum CPU Storage
256K 128K 512K
Minimum Partition 11 OK
lOOK
190K ~
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