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'''IBM Distributed Office Support System''', or '''DISOSS''' is a centralized document distribution and filing application for [[IBM]]'s [[mainframe computer]]s running the [[MVS]] and [[VSE (operating system)|VSE]] operating systems. DISOSS runs under both the [[CICS]] [[transaction processing system]] and the IMS/DS transaction processing system, and later versions use the [[SNADS]] architecture of peer to peer communication for distributed services.

Heterogeneous office systems connect through DISOSS to OfficeVision/MVS series. The IBM systems are OV/MVS, “OV/VM, OV/400, PS/CICS, PS/TSO, PS/PC, PROFS, and other Mail Systems Supporting SNADS and DIA. Only a single copy of DISOSS needs to be installed somewhere in the network to accomplish the connection.”<ref>{{cite web |title=5685-106 IBM OfficeVision/MVS (OV/MVS) V1.3 |url=http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/6/877/ENUS5685-106/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en}}</ref> A number of other vendors such as [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], [[Hewlett-Packard]], and [[Data General]] provided links to DISOSS.<ref name=Korzeniowski1 />

==Functions==
DISOSS provides document library function with search and retrieval controlled by security based on user ID, along with document translation based on Document Interchange Architecture (DIA) and [[Document Content Architecture]] (DCA). The different systems that use DISOSS for document exchange and distribution vary in their implementation of DCA and thus the end results of some combinations are only final form (FFT) documents rather than revisable form text (RFT).

It supports document exchange between various IBM and non-IBM office devices including the [[IBM Displaywriter System]], the [[IBM 5520]], the [[IBM 8100|IBM 8100/DOSF]], IBM Scanmaster, and [[Personal computer]]s and word processors.<ref>{{cite news|last=Dix|first=John|title=A T & T reveals new message blueprint|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8xwEAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22DISOSS%22&pg=PA1|accessdate=September 9, 2012|newspaper=Network World|date=September 22, 1986}}</ref> It offers format transformation and printing services, and provides a rich [[application programming interface]] (API) and interfaced with other office products such as [[IBM OfficeVision]].

==History==
DISOSS was announced in 1980,<ref name=Korzeniowski2>{{cite news|last=Korzeniowski|first=Paul|title=Disoss here to stay|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=whwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA34|page=34|volume=3|issue=10|newspaper=Network World|date=May 12, 1986}}</ref> and "was designated a strategic IBM product in 1982."<ref name=Korzeniowski1>{{cite news|last=Korzeniowski|first=Paul|title=Despite itself, DISOSS use spreads|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DR4EAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22DISOSS%22&pg=PA17|accessdate=September 18, 2012|newspaper=Network World|date=November 17, 1986}}</ref> It was a key part of [[IBM Systems Application Architecture]] (SAA), but suffered from a reputation as "difficult to understand" and "a resource hog."<ref>{{cite news|last=Raimondi|first=Donna|title=Exec promises angry users IBM to improve office system|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjC8nGAolfUC&dq=%22DISOSS%22&pg=PA6|accessdate=September 18, 2012|newspaper=Computrworld|date=November 24, 1986}}</ref> DISOSS continues to be actively marketed and supported as of 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=IBM Corporation|title=OfficeVision/MVS Details|url=http://www-01.ibm.com/software/applications/office/officevision/moredetails.html|accessdate=September 20, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=IBM Corporation|title=Supported product list (May 10, 2012)|url=http://www-03.ibm.com/services/supline/swxcel/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205174321/http://www-03.ibm.com/services/supline/swxcel/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 5, 2012|accessdate=September 19, 2012}}</ref>

Version 1 of DISOSS was introduced in June 1980; [[Colgate-Palmolive]] was one of the first sites to implement DISOSS version 1, and reported dissatisfaction with the poor quality of the documentation and with software bugs.<ref name="Hoard1982">{{citation|last=Hoard|first=Bruce|title=DOSF/Disoss User Vexed by Documentation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LW9X-GFY68sC&pg=PA7|volume=16|date=11 October 1982|publisher=IDG Enterprise|page=7|issn=0010-4841|issue=41|work=[[Computerworld]]}}</ref> IBM released version 2 in 1982, in which IBM claimed to resolve the issues which version 1 users had experienced.<ref name="Hoard1982"/>

DISOSS was implemented by the city government of [[Long Beach, California]] during 1983–1984.<ref name="McMillen1984">{{cite journal|last1=McMillen|first1=Sam|title=Office Automation: A Local Government Perspective|journal=Public Administration Review|volume=44|issue=1|year=1984|pages=64–67|issn=0033-3352|doi=10.2307/975664|jstor=975664}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[PROFS]]
* [[IBM OfficeVision]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}
IBM Corporation: Document Interchange with DISOSS Version 3 (1983)

==External links==
*[https://archive.today/20121216152459/http://www.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/public/applications/publications/cgibin/pbi.cgi?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=GC30-3434-00 DISOSS/370 V3 CONCEPTS MVS VSE (GC30-3434-00)]

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