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: building BREXX
Yeah I will do that. Please work in feature/fnnnn branches off develop. If you handle the source/brexx itself, I will handle the build process automation, and release management - OK? :-) I don't care
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adriansutherland67
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Re: building BREXX
One More Thing: other people (Peter Jacob, Mike Grossmann ) are working on BREXX for OS/VS 3.8 (MVS) TK4- which runs quite nice - their repo is at https://github.com/mgrossmann/brexx370 They have
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[email protected]
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Re: building BREXX
Or, Adrian, you can just add me as collaborator so I can work directly on the CMS brexx code in there, and use your build system, for speed.
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[email protected]
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Re: building BREXX
Yes, I have a fork of Bill Vlachoudis¡¯s repository at rvjansen/brexx, because I use that for pull requests for macos. Maybe it¡¯s best if you also fork from the main brexx repository, than I can
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[email protected]
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Re: building BREXX
There are substantial changes because original assumes ASCII. Some where we have a separate licence. Dave adrian@...> wrote:
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Dave Wade
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Re: building BREXX
So I made a repository - https://github.com/adesutherland/CMS-370-BREXX - (and guessed licenses - wrongly) - but then noticed this https://github.com/vlachoudis/brexx (
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adriansutherland67
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Re: Stupid Question - how to add a file to MAINT MNT19E
And then there was the Romulan Cloaking Device (RLD) which created a second directory on the disk.?? Rather dangerous actually, as hidden files would get clobbered if the directory they were hidden
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Stupid Question - how to add a file to MAINT MNT19E
Well, yes.? Consider I used DDR to dump the raw tracks of the MVS master catalog for its password a couple of weeks ago. And of course, all those clear text passwords in the USER DIRECT ... -ahd-
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Stupid Question - how to add a file to MAINT MNT19E
It worked (thank you) ... f.y.i this is the shell script that does the install: #!/bin/sh # Install YATA on CMS # Exit if there is an error set -e # IPL herccontrol -v herccontrol "ipl 141" -w "USER
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adriansutherland67
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Re: building BREXX
I will create a CMS BREXX project directly and ping the link Yes lets get the source / issues logged. My backlog is like this: - Update the VM/370 docker image to include YATA so I can move
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adriansutherland67
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Re: building BREXX
This is also reproducible: type say exec /* */ INTERPRET 'SAY' ARG(1) Ready; T=0.01/0.01 13:04:22 say 21000/365 583.333333ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ0123 (brexx on other platforms gives
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Re: Stupid Question - how to add a file to MAINT MNT19E
Bob, I don¡¯t think we ever implied that modes 1 and 2 on the ¡°S¡± and ¡°Y¡± disk were anything other than for convenience. However, for Mode 0 the CMS user guide for VM/370 says ¡°a filemode
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Dave Wade
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Re: Stupid Question - how to add a file to MAINT MNT19E
The ability to make only certain filemode number files visible, like filemode 2 files on the S and Y disks, was not a security mechanism. It was a way to save storage by making only necessary files
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Bob Bolch
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Re: Stupid Question - how to add a file to MAINT MNT19E
Those were more innocent times, well in terms of IT security at least ...
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adriansutherland67
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Re: dial cpwatch and what it says
Well that sure would explain this awful headache that I've not been able to shake. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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Dave McGuire
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Re: dial cpwatch and what it says
Hello! Actually that's what I asked. It is too good for IBM to write it. ---- Strange that glowing green spill in PA is getting worse. It's creeping to a museum across the street. It seems Dave you
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Gregg Levine
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Re: dial cpwatch and what it says
Le mar. 11 f¨¦vr. 2020 ¨¤ 19:41, Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8@...> a ¨¦crit : And was this a user created mod? Or was it something that IBM created I can see CPWATCH on the WATERLOO tape, with a
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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dial cpwatch and what it says
Hello! After updating Docker, its suggestion not mine, I promptly tried again Adrian's Docker container for Hercules and the VM Six Pack and found that yes indeed CPWatch was there. I checked on the
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Gregg Levine
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Re: Stupid Question - how to add a file to MAINT MNT19E
Back in the day, as an ordinary VM user, that was quite beyond my capability. Instead I uses an easier but more sledgehammer to crack a nut approach. I defined a temporary disk the same size as the
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Peter Coghlan
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Re: Stupid Question - how to add a file to MAINT MNT19E
Adrian There will be a document somewhere that describes the file modes. (CMS user guide) Mode ¡°0¡± files are only visible if you have write access to the disk, Unless you patched the access
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Dave Wade
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