Hi Steven,
Hello, I used VM/CMS very briefly during school work experience over 35
years ago and then came across Hercules and this mailing list and thought
I'd have a play with it.
I found
and I have downloaded and tried the five pack and six pack systems from
there. In each case I can get to the point where Hercules has started and
IPLed VM and several 3270 terminals are connected, but I can't get to the
point where I can get any CMS commands to work.
I did some searching and found Bob DuCharme's "Operating System Handbook"
of which part 5 covers VM/CMS. This describes a login screen with fields
for username, password and command but, although a screen with character
art appears, it doesn't have obvious fields to accept a user name or
password. Typing 'logon cmsuser' (as this is listed a valid username in
the sixpack readme) switches to a blank screen with 'CP READ' at the bottom
right. Typing 'IPL CMS' as per Bob's book gives an error message
'DMKCFC001E ?CP: IPL' and just about anything else just gives the message
'restart' in lower case. The only commands that seem to do anything are
logoff and shutdown.
The directions you found in "Operating System Handbook" apply to a later
version of VM than the versions available for download.
In the version you are running, it is not possible to log on from the VM/370
logo screen. When this screen comes up, you need to press enter or clear to
move on to the next screen when you will see "CP READ" in the bottom right.
At this point you can now enter 'logon cmsuser', then enter the password for
cmsuser, which is also cmsuser and then CMS should start up automatically.
Press enter once more when you see "VM READ" in the bottom right and then
you should be good to go.
The reason 'IPL CMS' did not work for you is because you need to be logged on
before you can issue this command and you had not managed to successfully
log on yet.
Regards,
Peter Coghlan.
