Hello!
That's what I wanted Bob. Great! Now what happens after I've got
Hercules running on a Pi3, and the OS is that copy of VM. What next?
We'd to know how to configure the configure file further to support
it. And of course logging into the release to start things and enable
things.
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On Sat, Aug 3, 2024 at 8:56?AM Bob Polmanter via groups.io
<wably@...> wrote:

I've uploaded XNET version 1.4.1 to the files section. This upload includes the full XNET package including the latest documentation. For VM/CE V1.R1.2 users, note that this version is identical to the 1.4.0 version you have preinstalled on VM/CE (on the XNET userid). The version change to 1.4.1 was simply to denote the difference between this version with its updated documentation versus the parts and pieces that are in VM/CE. Again, 1.4.0 and 1.4.1 are functionally identical.

The materials are now in the Files section of this group, named "xnetv141.zip".

From the XNET documentation intro:

XNET connects together two or more S/370-based VM systems for the purposes of allowing remote logon. XNET allows 3270 terminal users to log on to userids on other similar VM system(s) that are currently online to XNET. Likewise, a user on one of the other VM system(s) would be able to log on to a userid on your system. You still retain access control for your own systems via the system directory and passwords.



XNET provides the management and transport of 3270 data between systems in order to facilitate remote logons and connections to other VM systems. XNET can support multiple users and multiple systems, and supports two types of data transport mechanisms. XNET is a fully asynchronous mini-operating system that runs in a virtual machine.



Regards,

Bob

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Hello!
I'm not Dave, he had a problem with a statue. So can you please post
your documentation to the files-area? And can you please include a
note regarding what was stated here?
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On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 4:06?PM Bob Polmanter via groups.io
<wably@...> wrote:

Hi Dave,

In my copy of VM/CE V1.R1.2, dated July 19, 2022, there is an XNET userid in the directory. The XNET materials are on the 191 and 193 disks. The documentation for XNET is in the distribution VM370CE.V1R1.2.zip file, in the root directory structure.

The code on the XNET userid is at level 1.4.0, an includes a modification that Bob Bolch made to it to support model 5 terminals. But the documentation in the zip file is at level 1.2.0. I do have the 1.4.0 documentation though, if you want it. The only difference between 1.2.0 and 1.4.0 is the model 5 change plus some stability improvements for the CTC connection; both are internal changes. The documentation therefore is essentially the same.

Regards,
Bob

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Hello!
At this point in time it is not relevant. Now what's that statue doing
in your garden now? Don't blink!
Yes I know I hinted that the original was written by Dave M, it was
not. It was posted to cause a similar response.
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On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 4:42?AM Dave Wade via groups.io
<dave.g4ugm@...> wrote:

Bob,

Is it included or do you have to load it. I couldn’t find an XNET ID on my system..

Dave



From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bob Polmanter via groups.io
Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2024 8:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [h390-vm] Networking a selection of Hercules systems running VM/370rel6



There is a software package that is already part of VM/CE called XNET. This software allows two or more VM/370 systems to connect via a CTC device (using Hercules CTCE, not CTCI), and you can then remotely logon to and use the VM system(s) on the other end of the CTCs, and vice versa. Communication can even pass through multiple VM systems to your target system if they are all connected via CTC. This software is something akin to PVM (Passthrough VM, an IBM product from the period).



But to send files or messages between VM systems, you'll need the RSCS NJE modifications.



Regards,

Bob

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Hello!
I agree with the second, not so sure about the first. And I looked at
the website that Dave M, supplied earlier, (or was it one of his cats
who typed it? Or perhaps it was one of his other staff, and their
cats?) However at the moment setting things up along with that site is
currently a little beyond me. But setting up that example you cited,
that looks promising.
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I haven’t figured out how, but I have seen that there are VM/370 systems on HNET.

Zane

Hello!
Now remember I mentioned VM/370rel6 here, because that is the list
focus. As is I believe it was possible for a system running a full
featured system running it to do so. But I am not sure where it is
located in the document libraries preserved elsewere,
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On Wed, Jul 31, 2024 at 7:30?PM ScottC via groups.io
<sccosel@...> wrote:

Oops, that's MVS 3.8. Sorry.

On Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 04:29:22 PM PDT, ScottC via groups.io <sccosel@...> wrote:


What about Moshix's HNET ?



On Wednesday, July 31, 2024 at 04:03:27 PM PDT, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@...> wrote:


Hello!
Let us presuppose I have gotten a Hercules setup running the currently
available release of the community edition of VM/370rle6. Not of
course the two disk setup I normally run. What would be involved in
having it reach out and connect to other similar systems, and even
exchange messages, in the same way we send email to each other, and
also files. And to do so on a routine basis. This is an interesting
concept, but it will be a difficult one to properly grok.

Now why is an unhappy Yeti doing outside a McDonalds in a corner of a
town that's a suburb of Pittsburgh.
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was there, when it exploded." and it includes the names of all who saw
it do so.