Editing DOS/360 and successors (section)

===SSX/VSE===
[[Image:IBM Böblingen Entwicklung und Forschung briefing center during installation1984.jpg|thumb|right|An IBM staffer installing a third-party application running on SSX/VSE, at the IBM Böblingen facility where SSX work was done]]
'''SSX/VSE''' ("Small System Executive") was an attempt by IBM to simplify purchase and installation of VSE by providing a pre-generated system containing the OS and the most popular products.<ref>{{Cite journal|date=1 Oct 1984|title=IBM adds SSX/VSE aid; offers DS/VSE frontend|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qpTn_XtzdAMC&pg=PA46|journal=Computerworld|volume=18|issue=40|pages=46}}</ref>  SSX was released in 1982,<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Paul|first=Louis|date=23 Nov 1981|title=IBM brings out simplified operating system|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=94T9BTjdzT0C&pg=PA7|journal=Computerworld|volume=15|issue=47|pages=7}}</ref> and later replaced by VSE/SP. SSX was sold by IBM as a bundle of 14 component products (Advanced Functions/VSE, VSE/POWER, ACF/VTAME, VSE/VSAM, CICS/DOS/VS, DOS/VS, Sort/Merge, VSE/ICCF, VSE/OCCF, VSE/IPCS, DOS/COBOL, Back Up/Restore, Space Management, VSE/DITTO), and originally would only agree to offer the individual products separately via [[Request price quotation|RPQ]], although IBM later agreed to add those products individually to its price list under pressure from ISVs who claimed that the bundling violated antitrust laws.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Blumenthal|first=Marcia|date=15 Mar 1982|title=IBM yields to Adapso heat, unbundles SSX programs|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wz-oh7ZQo8MC&pg=PA2|journal=Computerworld|volume=16|issue=11|pages=1–2}}</ref>