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: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Anthony, Yes, but it should be on [email protected]. Chris -- <cjar1950@...>
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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I am a user of homebrew as it is easy. It perhaps would be better to leave this thread and start another (if there is still energy) on the subject of package distribution/building. For me I have now
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Anthony Smith
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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For what it's worth, when I was doing releases, I built RPMs as well as macOS installer disk images. Perhaps what can be done is to add recipes for Windows installer, .DMG, RPM, and DEB packages to
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Jay Maynard
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Hello, I am the correspondent that started this topic. From a pragmatic viewpoint the specific issue has been corrected by my editing of a configuration file.
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Anthony Smith
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Gregg Levine wrote: The good ones do. ;-) AFAIK the OP's issue has already been resolved. Yes? /g/h390-vm/message/3826 And as far as the new subject of conversation this thread has
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Fish Fish
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Hello! I thought those folk from the piscean communities do not have noses? Now a word from one of the managers, now that we have an official last word on these things, let's move the thread back to
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Gregg Levine
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Joe Monk wrote: What constitutes "an OFFICIAL release"? How is that defined? Or perhaps a better question might be, WHO gets to decide? <snip> Old news. The current SDL Hercules hasn't been "mine" for
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Fish Fish
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Mark A. Stevens wrote: [...] <snip> From the sounds of it then, it is not necessarily the developers of the product itself that is necessarily responsible for creating distribution packages, but
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Re: Rexx PARSE on VM/SP 5 behaves different from BRexx on VM/370 CE V1M1R1.1.
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This is the issue we talked about a few weeks ago on this list. The BREXX interpreter has a design flaw in the PARSE statement processor. I opened an issue on the developer's website. BREXX PARSE does
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Bob Bolch
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Rexx PARSE on VM/SP 5 behaves different from BRexx on VM/370 CE V1M1R1.1.
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Not sure if different is wrong, or just different, which is why I'm asking. Below is a fragment of an exec I am working on, and the behavior of Rexx on CE, is different from what I learned on SP 6.
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Mark, As you hinted, it gets quite complicated. Different distributions have different package methods - RPM is primarily Red Hat based. Debian & Ubuntu have a different method. As for Slackware,
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Fish, I know enough about RPMs to get myself in lots of trouble, so I will point you to some online help. From my experience, a part of the team developing a package, builds and tests the RPMs.
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: ASM3705
Tom, I think it may be possible to run CWAX00 on VM. CMS comes with DMSARX and DMSARN which are the CMS interfaces which build as ASM3705 and load CXAX00. However we are missing the execs that build
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Dave Wade
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Re: ASM3705
Hi Michael, Have a look over at: [email protected] Henk and Edwin have done a brilliant job of locating all the software for generating an NCP and then building a working 3705
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Tom Armstrong
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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The last OFFICIAL release I am aware of is V3.13... http://www.hercules-390.eu "I can now develop "my" Hercules (Hyperion) the way I want to, without having to get everyone else's permission or
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Joe Monk
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Mark, I suspect that the Linux distributors are not aware of Hercules V4. Perhaps the Hercules developers should point the Linux distributors in the right direction. They will then test and package
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Mark A. Stevens wrote: [...] [...] Forgive me, but I'm Linux illiterate. What does the SDL Hyperion Hercules project / development team need to do to get whatever it was you showed me to install the
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Fish Fish
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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There is a difference between the V3 and the V4 distributions of Hercules. Two different groups of develops, two different ideologies, two different implementations, I would offer that V3.13 is
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Fish, It probably has something to do with the flow, or the lack thereof, of SDL Hercules V4 into various Linux distributions, such as Arch, or Fedora, or even Ubuntu. I'm not saying a person can not
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: No VM IPL with V1.R1.1
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Joe Monk wrote: Eh? Since when are official releases of Hercules v4 only beta releases? What constitutes an "official" release? -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories
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Fish Fish
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