Asymmetric Multiprocessing System (ASP) is a loosely-coupled multiprocessing extension of OS/360 MVT and OS/VS2 SVS Release 1. ASP provides basic spooling capabilities, similar to HASP. In addition, ASP includes extensive support for for workload management functions, such as processor and device scheduling and dependent job control. ASP was the predecessor of JES3.
The product's original name was Attached Support Processor, hence the ASP acronym.
The base ASP Version 3.2 tape in AWS image format is available from cbttape.org.
I have built a turnkey MVT system with ASP installed. The turnkey system is available for download from ibiblio.org. Unzip the asp.zip file and follow instructions in the README file.
HASP is also installed on the turnkey system.
You may find useful the following ASP manuals at bitsavers.org:
- GH20-1173-1 ASP Version 3 General Information Manual (added 2020-11-09; PDF; size 3.2M bytes).
- GH20-1291-1 ASP Version 3 Application Programmer's Manual (added 2020-11-09; PDF; size 3.7M bytes).
- GH20-1292-0 ASP Version 3 System Programmer's Manual (added 2020-11-09; PDF; size 19M bytes).
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