Re: Would anyone like ....
I like the idea that we are not limited to what was the physical size of the tapes. In an emulated world like Hercules, I would like to set the size of my backup file at just under what I can write to
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Thomas Kern
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#4461
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Hercules PDF manuals
On the main Hercules page, if you scroll down about 1/2 way, you should see a section titled "PDF manuals": * https://sdl-hercules-390.github.io/html/#docs PLEASE NOTE the disclaimer! "The below PDF
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Fish Fish
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#4460
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Re: Would anyone like ....
Bertram Moshier wrote: [...] With Hercules, this is user configurable and controlled by the optional "MAXSIZE=" and "EOTMARGIN=" tape drive device parameters: *
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Fish Fish
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#4459
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Re: DMKRIO and Herc
A version 4 Hercules manual can be found at: https://hercdoc.glanzmann.org/V400/HerculesOperationsandUtilities.pdf I'm sure there are other places. ... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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#4458
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Re: Would anyone like ....
Tape files are not limited to feet of tape, but to the size of the filesystem/available space. You can, if you have it, attach real devices, like SCSI tape drives to Hercules, and use those. I don't
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Mark A. Stevens
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#4457
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Re: Would anyone like ....
Data compressions is already in place at the Hercules level, when you create a tape. See: https://hercdoc.glanzmann.org/V400/HerculesOperationsandUtilities.pdf Hercules Emulator V4.00 ¨C Operations
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Mark A. Stevens
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#4456
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Re: Would anyone like ....
I have been thinking about this and why VM lacked some of the basic subsystems needed for production work. Me and my company worked for many separate organisations over 30 years. We saw the same
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Anthony Smith
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#4455
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Re: Would anyone like ....
VM customers started sharing modifications and utilities decades before there was any Internet. VM's ease of use, and the availability of VM source code with a set of build tools, meant that VM user
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Bob Bolch
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#4454
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Re: Would anyone like ....
My system did full backups of each minidisk on Sunday and then deltas for Monday through Saturday. We already had a mechanism to ask the Operators to mount a tape. I don't remember if there was any
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Thomas Kern
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#4453
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Re: Would anyone like ....
I am sure there are many here that worked on many similar problems. A pity that Share wasn't as popular as GitHub seems to be and that everyone seemed more concerned about sharing IP.
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Anthony Smith
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#4452
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Re: Would anyone like ....
OH! Your story remnided me of a second change I did to VMFPLC2. It was an important part of determining the differences / changes. I forget what I changed, but know I did change something. Are the
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Bertram Moshier
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#4451
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Re: Would anyone like ....
Fascinating that I built much the same thing. To make it work also built a job scheduler and something to allow security to handle access, something to issue privileged commands etc etc. This started
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Anthony Smith
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#4450
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Re: Would anyone like ....
Hi, The software included a very basic form of tape management. It would tell the operator to mount a new tape and how to label the one just taken down. The software would keep track of the contents
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Bertram Moshier
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#4449
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Re: Would anyone like ....
Hi, It would really be great if someone could help me find my Share presentation on my backup program. Also it used a base, delta method. [email protected]> wrote:
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Bertram Moshier
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#4448
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Re: DMKRIO and Herc
On Windows, in the installation folder of Hercules. Start a command window, and type the command at the prompt. If the folder is in your path, you should get the syntax of the command displayed. It
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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#4447
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Re: Would anyone like ....
A tape management system might need to be written too. And maybe a data compression option? /Tom Kern
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Thomas Kern
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#4446
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Re: Would anyone like ....
Hi, As it has been awhile and I'm new to VM/CE, one of the things I need to know is how much data can I get on a 6250 reel of tape? What other backup devices does VM/CE support beside a 6250 drive?
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Bertram Moshier
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#4445
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Re: DMKRIO and Herc
You are correct about the 3330 and 3350. I wasn't reading DMKRIO closely. My mistake. Dasdint comnand? Where is it located (Windows, Herc, VM Exec, etc)?
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Bertram Moshier
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#4444
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Re: DMKRIO and Herc
To my knowledge, there is no such thing as a 3350-1 and 3350-11 and you won't see any of these in DMKRIO. In the Hercules configuration file, you don't need to code the model (that is 11 or 1),
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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#4443
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Re: Would anyone like ....
Hello Tom, You're correct. OCF used DDR for each drive so both used and free space was going to tape. Restores were equally messy and were at the mini-disk and not file level. My program was at the
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Bertram Moshier
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#4442
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