USER DOCUMENTATION REGION: EARTH VOLUME: SYSGENESIS AND IT CAME TO PASS THAT THE MASTER PROGRAMMER INPUTTED UNTO MAN.MOSES SAYING: BEHOLD I LINK UNTO YOU THE DOCUMENTATION CONCERNING THIS COMPUTER AND THIS REGION; COMPUTE THE DATA WHICH I INPUT. I AM THE BEGINNING AND THE END. THE ALMIGHTY PROGRAMMER. BY MY ONLY CONSULTANT I SYSGEN (GENERATE) THESE THINGS. YEA, IN THE BEGINNING (AT I.P.L. TIME) I SYSGENED THE COMPUTER & THIS REGION WITHIN WHICH THOU RESIDETH. AND THE REGION WAS WITHOUT DATA AND WAS VOID; AND ALL BITS WERE TURNED OFF. AND MY OPERATOR SCANNED THE REGION. AND I SAID: //CREATION JOB (GOD,VS) /*JOBPARM FORMS=MAN,TIME=INFINITY,ROOM=EDEN //DAY1 EXEC PGM=LIGHT // AND THE BITS OF HEAVEN WERE TURNED ON. AND I SCANNED THE LIGHT, AND IT WAS GOOD; AND I SAID: //NIGHT DD DSN=DARKNESS //DAY DD DSN=LIGHT AND THE DARKNESS WAS DIVIDED FROM THE LIGHT. AND I SAID: /* // AND THUS A PAUSE. AND I SAID: //CREATION JOB (GOD,VS) /*JOBPARM FORMS=MAN,TIME=INFINITY,ROOM=EDEN //DAY2 EXEC PGM=SORT //WATER DD DSN=H20 //HEAVENS DD DSN=AIR /* // AND THE HEAVENS AND WATER WERE DIVIDED. AND I SAID: //CREATION JOB (GOD,VS) /*JOBPARM FORMS=MAN,TIME=INFINITY,ROOM=EDEN //DAY3 EXEC PGM=SORT //FROM DD DSN=WATER,UNIT=H20 //SEAS DD DSN=WATER //LAND DD DSN=EARTH /* // AND THE SEAS AND LAND WERE SEPARATED. AND I SAID AT THE SAME TIME: //CREATION JOB (GOD,VS) /*JOBPARM FORMS=MAN,TIME=INFINITY,ROOM=EDEN // EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //FROM DD DSN=LAND //PLANTS DD DSN=GRASS // DD DSN=HERBS // DD DSN=FRUIT.TREES /* // AND FRUIT TREES AND HERBS WERE CONCATENATED TO PLANTS AND CAME FORTH OUT OF THE LAND. AND I SAID: //CREATION JOB (GOD,VS) /*JOBPARM FORMS=MAN,TIME=INFINITY,ROOM=EDEN //DAY4 EXEC PGM=MERGE //FROM DD DSN=HEAVEN //STARS DD DSN=LIGHT //SUN DD DSN=LIGHT //MOON DD DSN=LIGHT /* // AND THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE STARS DID NOT EXIST BUT WERE ADDED TO THE HEAVENS. AND I SAID: //CREATION JOB (GOD,VS) /*JOBPARM FORMS=MAN,TIME=INFINITY,ROOM=EDEN //DAY5 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //FROM DD DSN=WATER // DD DSN=AIR // DD DSN=LAND //ANIMALS DD DSN=LIVING.CREATURES /* // AND ANIMALS CAME FORTH AND POPULATED THE WATER,AIR AND LAND. AND I SAID: //CREATION JOB (GOD,VS) /*JOBPARM FORMS=MAN,TIME=INFINITY,ROOM=EDEN //DAY6 EXEC PGM=SYSGEN //HUMAN DD DSN=ADAM,UNIT=MAN,SPACE=EDEN // DD DSN=EVE,UNIT=WOMAN,SPACE=EDEN /* // NOW THE PROGRAM SYSGEN WORKS WONDROUS THINGS UPON THE REGION. IT BRINGS FORTH MAN FROM THE EARTH AND GIVES HIM LIFE AND UNDERSTANDING. AND THIS PROGRAM CREATES (BY A PROCESS SIMILAR TO CLONING) A HELPMATE FOR MAN CALLED WOMAN. AND THESE CREATURES WERE SPECIAL FOR THEY HAD THE CAPACITY TO GENERATE THEIR OWN PROGRAMS LIKE UNTO ME, THE MASTER PROGRAMMER. BUT THEY WERE FORBIDDEN TO CREATE ANY PROGRAMS AND THIS THEY UNDERSTOOD. AND I GAVE TO THEM POWER OVER THE PRINTERS THAT THEY COULD OUTPUT UNTO ME. AND ADAM AND EVE BECAME MY OPERATING SYSTEM. AND I PUT THEM INTO LOW CORE AND CALLED THE PLACE EDEN. AND IT WAS GOOD. AND I SAID: //CREATION JOB (GOD,VS) /*JOBPARM FORMS=MAN,TIME=INFINITY,ROOM=EDEN //DAY7 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 /* // AND I RESTED.