This group is for all folks running the original IBM VM/370 Release 6 operating system (or later (e.g. VMTCE (Community Edition)) on Hercules. Like the other early IBM operating systems this version has always been in the public domain and so can be freely distributed. The base version as supplied by IBM is lacking in many facilities. IBM solved this by providing additional extension products which were licensed and so are not available. There are however many user enhancements available which can be installed. In addition, in order to get users up and running quickly updated "releases" of VM/370 included the most popular updates are available for download, so novices can start to learn VM without having to delve into the system internals. It is intended that this wiki will provide information on the base release and these updates.
The available versions are here :-
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Re: VM/ESA era manuals?
I found a fair portion of the manuals for r2.3, r2.4 and z/VM on the IBM z/VM website a few years ago. I don't know if they are still there.?I have a complete set of r2.3 or 2.4, but they are in
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gdblodgett
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Re: VM/ESA era manuals?
The primary bitsavers.org site has been having problems for the past couple of days. It started at about the same time that my own network started getting hit by a rather substantial denial-of-service
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Dave McGuire
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VM/ESA era manuals?
Does anyone know if there is an archive anywhere of VM/ESA era manuals? I tried getting to bitsavers.org but it seems to be bandwidth-overloaded and does not respond. Are there bitsavers mirrors
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pjfarley3
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Re: Fortran I/O
Hi Steven, CMS "borrowed" the FORTRAN compiler from MVS. You will need FILEDEF statements to associate MVS DDNAMEs and FORTRAN unit numbers with files or devices, for example (untested): FILEDEF
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Peter Coghlan
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Fortran I/O
Guys, thanks for all the help so far. I got the card punch, printer and IND$FILE transfers working. Next I thought I'd try compiling a Fortran program. I grabbed the example on
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Steven Fosdick
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Re: Real and Virtual Printers and Punches and File Transfers
Steven Well if you are using one of the incarnations of the six-pack it comes with ind$file and you can use that to move files in either direction. If you are using Windows and the standard TN3270
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Dave Wade
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Re: Real and Virtual Printers and Punches and File Transfers
You need to start the "real" card punch or printer, for example, while logged in to OPERATOR or MAINT, use: CP START 00D (00D) is the "real" address of the "real" card punch. Regards, Peter Coghlan.
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Peter Coghlan
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
Steven There are a couple of IBM editors with a prefix area. If you used VM it was most likely you used XEDIT. Superficially it looks similar to the ISPF editor but few, if anyone used that on VM ISPF
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Dave Wade
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Real and Virtual Printers and Punches and File Transfers
Thinking about how I might be able to transfer a simple text file from within CMS to the Hercules host I had the idea that I may be able to send it to the card punch which would should then appear in
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Steven Fosdick
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
Mentioning xedit, that was going to be my next question. The editor I remember was one where each line was prefixed by an area into which you could type one or two letter commands and block operations
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Steven Fosdick
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
My bad!
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
It was not until spring 1988 that IBM decommitted from the General Availability of VM/XA 1, so VM/ESA was later. On the 24 bit side ... VM/SP 3 was popular in 1985, VM/SP 4 was soon after, and VM/SP 5
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
1985 was barely VM/XA (I dont even think HPO was out) Joe adrian@...> wrote:
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Joe Monk
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
1985 would have been VM/SP release 3 era.? I installed VM/ESA 1.1 in early 1992.? Logging on via the logo screen came about with VM/SP.? With VM/370, it is easier if you clear the logo screen
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gdblodgett
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
35 years ago ... 1985 ... VM/ESA ... so a bit more modern to the old six pack (!) On the six pack 1.3 beta we have fsedit rather than xedit and fslist. Both community created. And also brexx. Fsedit
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adriansutherland67
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
Thanks for the replies. After some experimentation, I discovered that the 'logon' command only works when abbreviated to 'log'. Using the abbreviated form I can specify both username and password on
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Steven Fosdick
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
Hi Steven,
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Peter Coghlan
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Re: Getting Started with VM/CMS
The password? which is cmsuser¡! So do Logon cmsuser cmsuser Dave Sent: 19 January 2020 19:54 To: [email protected] Subject: [h390-vm] Getting Started with VM/CMS Hello, I used VM/CMS very briefly
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Dave Wade
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Getting Started with VM/CMS
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
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Steven Fosdick
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Re: Hi
Test post
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ScottC
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