The Conversational Monitor System (CMS), although a component of the VM/ESA operating system, is itself an operating environment Users communicate with CMS through commands, and CMS uses system messages to communicate to users.
CMS can help you perform a wide variety of tasks. For example, you can:
- Do office work with the help of licensed programs designed to run on CMS, such as OfficeVision/VM and the Document Composition Facility (DCF) with
BookMaster*
- Do numerically-intensive computing with the help of supported language libraries and compilers, such as VS FORTRAN
- Create and edit files
- Write, test, and debug application programs for use under either CMS or guest systems
- Process application programs developed under either CMS or guest systems
- Share data between CMS and guest systems
- Communicate with other users
CMS contains many application programming facilities, including:
- Extended architecture support
- CMS application programming interface
- OS/MVS simulation
- DOS/VSE support
- Callable services library (CSL)
- Support for programming languages and application environments.
---from "VM/ESA Introduction and Feature Summary"