Job Entry Subsystem 1
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History
IBM proclaimed[2] JES1 to be "the single most important addition" to the job scheduling provided by VS1. IBM Systems Journal[3] defined JES1's services as Spooling and scheduling, adding "Its three major components are peripheral services, central services, and queue management."
JES1 was not popular,[4]: 5 because HASP and ASP users often had made local modifications (edits),[4]: 9 and wanted to retain their investment.[5]
Features
JES1 permits operators to submit batch jobs from local unit record equipment.
In addition, Remote Entry Service (RES) permits remote operators to submit jobs from remote sites[6] to JES. The printed and punched output of jobs running on OS/VS1, whether submitted locally or remotely, is handled by JES and may be routed to local devices, to the originating site or to another remote site.[4][7] The Remote Entry Services (RES)[8] of OS/VS1 is similar to Remote Job Entry (RJE) on OS/360 but the protocol for programmable workstations is that used by HASP II and ASP rather than that used by RJE.
New Features
- In MFT a reader or writer task tied up a partition; in JES1 a separate partition was required only while starting or stopping the task.
- In MFT each SPOOL file was a separate physical sequential (PS) dataset on public DASD; in JES1 SPOOL files are kept in a common SPOOL dataset managed by JES1.
- In MFT a reader task could be delayed by interpreting tasks; in OS/VS1 the interpretation is done when the job is initiated.
- The JOB Card JCL was given a new option: TYPRUN=SCAN, whereby a job could be submitted for quick feedback, and - if no errors were detected - be submitted again (without TYPRUN=SCAN on the JOB Card.[2]: 399
- JES1 used a SubSystem Interface (SSI) similar to that in MVS.
References
- Features
- OS/Virtual Storage 1 - Features Supplement (PDF). Systems (Fourth ed.). IBM. January 1977. GC20-1752-3. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
- Networking
- Hutchinson, John M. (March 1980). Job Networking Facilities (PDF). Technical Bulletin (First ed.). IBM Washington Systems Center. GC24-5090-1. Retrieved November 15, 2025.
- Planing
- OS/VS1 Planning and Use Guide - VS1 Release 2 (PDF). Systems (Second ed.). IBM. January 1973. GC24-5090-1. Retrieved November 15, 2025.