It had a competitor, ASP ( Attached Support Processor ), which ran on one mainframe and controlled scheduling of other attached mainframes.
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In 1976 IBM provided another option, JES3 ( Job Entry Subsystem 3 ), a descendant of ASP ( Attached Support Processor ), which allows one CPU to manage a single job queue feeding work to several physically distinct CPUs, and therefore allows one operator's console to manage the work of all those CPUs.
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"' JES3 "'( "'Job Entry Subsystem 3 "') is similarly descended from the Attached Support Processor ( ASP ), which was IBM's initially preferred system for OS / 360 " unit record I / O ", although JES2's " shared SPOOL " program product ( NJE ) ultimately displaced JES3 ( and even JES2 ) in many cases.