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'''Programmer and Operator Productivity Aid''' (POP) is an application package written originally for the [[IBM]] [[System/34]], which became much more popular and functional on the IBM [[System/36]] and universal on the [[Advanced/36]].<ref>[http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/system36/SC21-9072-0_Programmer_and_Operator_Productivity_Aid_Description_and_Operations_Guide_Jan84.pdf Programmer and Operator Productivity Aid: Description and Operations Guide], [[IBM]], SC21-9027-0, January 1984.</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=New Products|magazine=Computerworld|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nE8BHOMlhxMC&pg=PT23|date=30 May 1988|publisher=IDG Enterprise|page=23|issn=0010-4841|quote=...the product reportedly gives users the power, speed and familiarity of IBM's Programmer and Operator Productivity Aid utility...}}</ref>
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'''Programmer/Operator Productivity''' is an application package written originally for the [[IBM]] [[System/34]], which became much more popular and functional on the IBM [[System/36]] and universal on the [[Advanced/36]].
 
POP comprises four major tools:
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*LIBR, which provides easy access to libraries and library members;
*DISKETTE, which provides easy access to diskette files;
*FSEDIT, which is a full-screen text editor in the fashion of the [[System/38]] and [[AS/400IBM i]] text editors.
 
POP does not have a function for folders. The [[Office/36]] TEXTFLDR procedure is adequate for this function.
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POP programs use a [[point-and-shoot interface]]. Many objects are displayed and to the left of each object is an input field. The operator interacts by moving the cursor to the desired object and marking it by typing a letter or number which represents a command or function.
 
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POP used the substitution parameters of 'procedures' (see OCL) to form usable working 'canned code' to preform tasks when working with the System/34. Rather than type: // Load $copy,f1........ you choose from a list called 'copy file'. and filled in the blanks. It was a shortcut in coding OCL (operation control language). This utility that was sold/distributed by IBM was the most highly used but most seldom bought utility program that IBM ever made. It could accept OCL and assembler language perhaps COBOL also instructions to make life easy as a programmer on the systems/34.
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