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the user has requested<br />
information.<br />
PAGING AREA.<br />
assigned<br />
by the<br />
portions<br />
order to<br />
various users.<br />
the recording of trace<br />
A secondary storage area on disk which is<br />
to a particular virtual machine. and is used<br />
Control <strong>Program</strong> for temporary storage of<br />
of core belonging to that virtual, machine. in<br />
allocate main storage dynamically among the<br />
PARAMETER LIST. A string of doublewords used whenever a CMS<br />
command or function is called by<br />
The format of the parameter list<br />
the command or function being<br />
contains the name and operands<br />
function.<br />
an SVC instruction.<br />
varies depending on<br />
called, but always<br />
of that command or<br />
PERMANENT DISR. A disk area allocated to each user (at the<br />
time he is authorized to use the CP/CMS system) on<br />
which stored files are retained until the user requests<br />
that they be deleted.<br />
READ-ONLY. An indication that the user may have access to<br />
the contents of a disk, but may perform no WRITE<br />
operations to that area (that is, he may only READ it).<br />
READY MESSAGE. The message wR:T=xx.xx/xx.xx hh.mm.ss· which<br />
is typed as a response indicating the successful<br />
completion of a CMS command and a return to the CMS<br />
command environment. The first xx.xx is the virtual CPU<br />
time and the second xx.xx is the total CPU time in<br />
seconds used since the last ready or error message.<br />
REQUEST. Input acceptable only to an environment which is<br />
unique to a specific CMS command.<br />
RESPONSE. Any nonerror message typed out by the system at<br />
the terminal.<br />
SPOOLING AREA. Any disk area used by the Control <strong>Program</strong> to<br />
temporarily hold input from the offline card reader or<br />
output to the offline card punch or printer.<br />
SYSTEM DISK. A disk area containing the CMS nucleus" of<br />
which each user receives his own copy, and the<br />
disk-resident portion of CMS, which is shared by all<br />
users.<br />
SYSTEM FILE. Any file residing on the system disk as<br />
opposed to the user·s permanent or temporary disks.<br />
TEMPORARY DISK. A disk area allocated to the user at the<br />
time he logs into the Control <strong>Program</strong>, on which stored<br />
files are retained only for the duration of the<br />
terminal session.<br />
548 GLOSSARY
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