CMS EXEC

CMS EXEC, or EXEC, is an interpreted, command procedure control, computer scripting language used by the CMS EXEC Processor supplied with the IBM Virtual Machine/Conversational Monitor System (VM/CMS) operating system.EXEC was written in 1966 by Stuart Madnick at MIT on the model of CTSS RUNCOM.He originally called this processor COMMAND, and it was later renamed EXEC.All three — CMS EXEC, EXEC 2 and REXX — continue to be supported by the IBM CMS product.PROFILE EXEC is an EXEC that is automatically executed when a user logs on to tailor their environment.
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