INTERPRETED, COMMAND PROCEDURE CONTROL, COMPUTER SCRIPTING LANGUAGE
EXEC2
EXEC2
1. <language> A scripting language produced by IBM in the
late 1970s.
Superseded by REXX.
[SC24-5219, "Virtual Machine/System Product EXEC2
Reference"].
[Successor to EXEC 1? With or without a space?]
2. <operating system> An archaic operating system from
UNIVAC. By about 1980 it had been replaced by EXEC 8.
[Dates? Did EXEC 3 to EXEC 7 exist?]
(2000-08-06)
EXEC2
EXEC2 is an interpreted, command procedure control, computer scripting language used by the EXEC2 Processor originally supplied with the CMS component of the IBM Virtual Machine/System Product (VM/SP) operating system.
In computing, exec is a functionality of an operating system that runs an executable file in the context of an already existing process, replacing the previous executable. This act is also referred to as an overlay.
EXEC 2 is an interpreted, command procedure control, computer scripting language used by the EXEC 2 Processor originally supplied with the CMS component of the IBM Virtual Machine/System Product (VM/SP) operating system.