A tradition of the VM Workshop is the Tools Tape. Attendees contribute mods, original programs, documentation, etc. that they have written that might be of use or interest to other VM installations. Many of the presentations at the Workshop involve these contributions. The 1997 edition is available here.
The Tools are stored as VMARC archive files with a Read-me and List file for each VMARC package. After receiving a VMARC file it must be reformatted a little before the VMARC command can unpack it:
PIPE < filename VMARC filemode | FBLOCK 80 00 | > filename VMARC filemode F 80
Access is also available via anonymous FTP from ukcc.uky.edu on the Tools.1997 disk. Before using an FTP Get to retrieve them from another VM system be sure to issue Mode B and Type E commands.
Also available here are the roster from the 1997 Workshop and the 1996 Tools. The tools were last updated on 15 Jun 1998. |
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Generate a height balanced binary tree
About 0.01 megabytes, last update 1996.06.25
Dave Jones <djones@starbase.neosoft.com>
Velocity Software
Charlotte CMS WWW browser, V2.1.0
About 0.70 megabytes, last update 1997.05.30
Perry Ruiter <charlotte.support@gems4.gov.bc.ca>
Province of British Columbia
Alternate method of packaging the CMS nucleus
About 0.03 megabytes, last update 1997.01.28
Perry Ruiter <perry.ruiter@gems1.gov.bc.ca>
Province of British Columbia
3390-3 DASD cache status
About 0.04 megabytes, last update 1997.06.12
Sam Whiteman <whiteman@vmb.ipfw.indiana.edu>
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
Dataspace Tools
About 0.07 megabytes, last update 1997.06.11
Dave Jones <djones@starbase.neosoft.com>
Velocity Software
Execute or Execload an Exec that resides in a non-accessed SFS directory
About 0.07 megabytes, last update 1996.06.19
Kent Fiala <sasklf@vm.sas.com>
SAS Institute Inc.
Replacement for the DUMPLOAD command
About 0.02 megabytes, last update 1997.06.07
Kent Fiala <sasklf@vm.sas.com>
SAS Institute Inc.
Filemaker, Index, and IndexSearch Utilities
About 0.15 megabytes, last update 1997.06.03
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
Finger Server and Client
About 0.10 megabytes, last update 1997.06.03
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
CSO nameserver (Qi/Ph phonebook) server
About 0.16 megabytes, last update 1997.06.03
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
A tool for displaying data in hex
About 0.01 megabytes, last update 1997.06.07
Kent Fiala <sasklf@vm.sas.com>
SAS Institute Inc.
Structured macros for assembler
About 0.13 megabytes, last update 1997.06.10
Frederick J Hitzman
Information Builders
Assorted Internet utilities, including Fetch and Xftp
About 0.26 megabytes, last update 1997.07.31
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
Manage an IP address database with SQL
About 0.05 megabytes, last update 1997.06.09
Martha McConaghy <urmm@vm.marist.edu>
Marist College
Analyze router ARP data
About 0.04 megabytes, last update 1997.06.09
Martha McConaghy <urmm@vm.marist.edu>
Marist College
IUCV support for REXX
About 0.07 megabytes, last update 1994.06.06
Arthur Ecock <eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
Presentation on IPMON and IPMANAGE
About 0.04 megabytes, last update 1997.06.10
Martha McConaghy <urmm@vm.marist.edu>
Marist College
Monitor Tools
About 0.02 megabytes, last update 1997.06.11
Dave Jones <djones@starbase.neosoft.com>
Velocity Software
CMS Pipelines Papers
About 3.25 megabytes, last update 1997.06.08
Melinda Varian <maint@pucc.princeton.edu>
Princeton University
PL/I Tools
About 0.18 megabytes, last update 1996.06.25
Dave Jones <djones@starbase.neosoft.com>
Velocity Software
RAM disk for CMS
About 0.05 megabytes, last update 1994.06.06
Arthur Ecock <eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
Postscript Printer Driver
About 0.04 megabytes, last update 1998.04.27
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
CMS Pipelines Runtime Library Documentation
About 2.64 megabytes, last update 1996.12.20
Melinda Varian <maint@pucc.princeton.edu>
Princeton University
CMS Pipelines Runtime Library Distribution
About 1.08 megabytes, last update 1997.03.01
Melinda Varian <maint@pucc.princeton.edu>
Princeton University
Logical device support function for REXX
About 0.25 megabytes, last update 1994.06.06
Arthur Ecock <eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
Logical sessions for CMS
About 0.39 megabytes, last update 1997.06.09
Arthur Ecock <eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
Extracting filepool info from CP directory
About 0.02 megabytes, last update 1997.06.10
Arthur Ecock <eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
Sharing Silos Between MVS and VM
About 0.13 megabytes, last update 1997.06.13
Tony Lotito <tony_lotito@ml.com>
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Spelling checker and corrector
About 1.21 megabytes, last update 1995.12.12
Allan Hetzel <sysal@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
Tape mapping utility for CMS
About 0.53 megabytes, last update 1995.02.23
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
A syslog server for VM
About 0.03 megabytes, last update 1997.06.09
Arthur Ecock <eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
VT100-style telnet sessions for CMS
About 0.06 megabytes, last update 1997.06.10
Arthur Ecock <eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
REXX performance analyzer and debugger
About 0.24 megabytes, last update 1997.06.07
Kent Fiala <sasklf@vm.sas.com>
SAS Institute Inc.
Track Classic for VM/SP, HPO, and VM/ESA 370
About 1.01 megabytes, last update 1996.06.19
Ross Fried <track@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
Track for VM/XA and VM/ESA ESA
About 1.00 megabytes, last update 1997.06.07
Ross Fried <track@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
Macro and subroutine library used by other UK packages
About 0.55 megabytes, last update 1995.06.12
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
A full-screen Query Names command
About 0.17 megabytes, last update 1996.06.19
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
Assorted CMS commands, REXX functions, etc.
About 1.75 megabytes, last update 1997.06.03
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
Subcommand interface for FTP
About 0.05 megabytes, last update 1997.05.26
Romney White, IBM <romney@vnet.ibm.com>
MiraSoft
An e-mail directory service (used with Foneserv)
About 0.25 megabytes, last update 1997.06.03
Dave Elbon <sysdave@ukcc.uky.edu>
University of Kentucky
Replacement for CP SEND command
About 0.03 megabytes, last update 1997.06.10
Arthur Ecock <eckcu@cunyvm.cuny.edu>
CUNY
Xedit a file that resides in a non-accessed SFS directory
About 0.08 megabytes, last update 1996.06.19
Kent Fiala <sasklf@vm.sas.com>
SAS Institute Inc.
ZIP Code Data
About 0.62 megabytes, last update 1997.06.11
Dave Jones <djones@starbase.neosoft.com>
Velocity Software