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: WATFIV
The actual module just wants FT05F001 defined. I suspect it shipped with a smarter wrapper EXEC than the EXEC (1) exec one on the Sixpack.? (I?checked, the LCM+L uses the same ancient EXEC.) It
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: IFOX00/ASSEMBLER Question
#VMCE
Hi Bob and Mark, normally, if a MACLIB contains only macros, there is no need to compile them and there is no need to build a TXTLIB from them; the macros can simply be used by other ASSEMBLER sources
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Bernd Oppolzer
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Re: IFOX00/ASSEMBLER Question
#VMCE
Hi Mark, I do not see any way that the VM/370 CMS ASSEMBLE command can compile a member of a CMS MACLIB. I would have expected it to be possible, but the code and documentation say otherwise. Bob
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Bob Bolch
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Re: IFOX00/ASSEMBLER Question
#VMCE
ASSIST does not use the ASSEMBLER. It is its own assembler Dave Sent: 17 December 2021 02:51 To: [email protected] Subject: [h390-vm] IFOX00/ASSEMBLER Question #VMCE We don't seem to have all the
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Dave Wade
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#3763
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Re: WATFIV
Mark, (and others) Sorry, I wasn¡¯t clear. My question is ¡°why does our WATFIV CMS command NOT accept multiple inputs as described in the user guide. From the user guide (page 12) :- WATFIV fn-i
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Dave Wade
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#3762
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Re: WATFIV
The WATFIV module both compiles and executes Fortran programs, submitted as jobs in a "card" deck. That's the way I remember it from my university days. At the time, it was used in the engineering
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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#3761
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Re: IFOX00/ASSEMBLER Question
#VMCE
You dont assemble macros independently... When they are used in an assembler program, the assembler will bring in and interpret the code as part of the assembly. Joe [email protected]> wrote:
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Joe Monk
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#3760
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IFOX00/ASSEMBLER Question
#VMCE
We don't seem to have all the pieces to ASSIST, so I am trying to fill in the gaps. I have two MACLIBS built and want to begin assembly to build a TXTLIB of the routines, but it seems I don't
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Mark A. Stevens
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#3759
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Re: WATFIV
This looks like it was set up for a JES2 XBATCH initiator. Jay Maynard 2021-12-17 02:27:05 +0000 Mark A. Stevens via groups.io < marXtevens@...> :
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Jay Maynard
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#3758
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Re: WATFIV
The syntax for WATFIV job stream, one with multiple jobs/programs in one CMS file. Ready; T=0.08/0.11 02:22:53 watfiv hello Ready(00003); T=0.02/0.03 02:23:00 l hello * a ( date Filename Filetype Fm?
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Mark A. Stevens
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#3757
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WATFIV
Gentles, Does any one use WATFIV? The current EXEC seems to make a dogs dinner of things as it only accepts one input file. The manual for WATFIV suggests that the CMS interface accepts multiple files
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Dave Wade
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Re: Updated Help
Thank you for putting this together. I've had more coffee, so maybe I'll be better at explaining. Neither GCC HELPCMD, nor GCC HELPCMD2 point to HELP PDPCLIB, as in does Note 4. I would suggest adding
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Mark A. Stevens
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#3755
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Re: Possible bug in BREXX parse instruction
Hi Mark, that¡¯s correct. The reason is simple. I¡®m a MVS developer and Bob is a VM developer. ? Currently there are two different source repositories for brexx on 370. But you are right, that
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Mike Gro?mann
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Re: Possible bug in BREXX parse instruction
Why is BREXX for MVS so different from BREXX for VM/CMS that it could have differences in something as fundamental as the REXX PARSE statement? I would think that most of the BREXX code should be
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Mark Waterbury
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#3753
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Re: Updated Help
Mark, Thanks for looking. Why are you confused. It¡¯s a draft so it will have inconsistencies. GCC HELPCMD points to the help for both libraries. LIB fn specifies the runtime library with which the
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Dave Wade
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#3752
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Re: Updated Help
I downloaded the help.aws, then uploaded it to my VM system. I found the reference to GCCLIB, but I'm not finding a reference to PDPCLIB in the following. FSVIEW GCC HELPCMD2 F ... 3.? The source
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Mark A. Stevens
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#3751
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Updated Help
Folks, I have attempted to clean up the GCC help files and to that end have uploaded some modified files to the groups file section. /g/h390-vm/files/Help%20File%20Updates there are
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Dave Wade
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Re: Possible bug in BREXX parse instruction
Hey ¡. I will check the MVS version on weekend. Sorry for the delay. Mike Bob Bolch <Bob@...> schrieb am Mi. 15. Dez. 2021 um 13:05: Von Gmail Mobile gesendet
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Mike Gro?mann
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#3749
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Re: Possible bug in BREXX parse instruction
This is definitely a bug in BREXX on VM/370. We are checking into whether the MVS version has a similar bug. So far, I am just starting to go through the (sparsely) documented PARSE code. Bob Bolch
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Bob Bolch
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#3748
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Re: Possible bug in BREXX parse instruction
thanks for all the advice. For the moment I have solved my problem by rewriting the exec so that the pair of parentheses always have two non-null character strings between them. Dave wrote:
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Dave Mitchell
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#3747
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