In computing "'System generation "'or "'sysgen "'is the process of creating a particular unique instance of an operating system by combining user-specified options and parameters with manufacturer-supplied general-purpose program code to produce an operating system tailored for a particular hardware and software environment.
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Because of the limited capacity of even large processors of that era every CICS installation was required to assemble the source code for all of the CICS system modules after completing a process similar to system generation ( sysgen ), called " CICSGEN ", to establish values for conditional assembly language statements.
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:: As for a lot to do, the IOCS article is a piece of cake compared to some of the other articles in my user space, e . g ., User : Chatul / System Generation ( OS ); it's more or less self contained and I won't have to write a half dozen other articles to provide context.
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First, it delivers information about the form factor of the system, secondly the number of sockets is given, thirdly, it incorporates the used processor family ( currently only intel processors ), and then a number for the feature-set of the system and lastly, the appendix gives insight about the system generation according to the Intel Xeon processor family generation development.
