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---- - ----- ISG - ---- ---- Do not reproduce without written permission GENERAL INFORMATION GI A50.1 Oct 83 =::-:. ~~E: OTHER MARKETING ACTIVITY Major Revision USER GROUPS SHARE Program Library Agency NATIONAL USER GROUPS TUCC P.O. Box 12076 User groups are autonomous organizations, composed of IBM Research Triangle Park customers. All administrative and organizational matters pertaining to North Carolina 27709 these organizations, as well as their periodic meetings, are under their (919) 549-0671 (Ext: 283) own jurisdiction. SHARE members have access to comrlete information on the They provide a great deal of information to their members, e)(change SHARE Program Library in the SHARE Reference Manual. technical ideas and documentation, and work with IBM to ensure better user products. 'GUIDE' The major system-oriented national user groups are SHARE, GUIDE, This group is an international organization organized in 1956 by users and COMMON. of the IBM 705 and now includes System/360 Model 40 and System/370 Model 115 and higher. Although this group originally System-Oriented Groups -- Customer Participation restricted its scope to commercially oriented users, it has broadened its activities for all computer uses. Each group is organized with an elected Executive Board to govern with functional divisions (approximately seven in each) such as program- The name GUIDE is derived from 'Guidance for Users of Integrated ming, applications, installation management, and communications as Data Processing Equipment: The principal purposes of GUIDE with the major lines of the organization. The next subdivision is projects relations to its members are: which are organized around specific interest areas (e.g., MVS, MPS, IMS). The project work is the most significant activity in each of these To exchange and dissemi