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
yes, that is fine with me, I¡¯ll start on the testsuite and the errors that remain when the gcc runtime gets better
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#401
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Re: building BREXX
I think you can assign people to issues. I would like to concentrate on reentrancy, residency, and gcclib issues if that works for you?
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Re: building BREXX
No ... I disconnect and logon the user to the console as needed. However if you are using a real mainframe that won't work :-(
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Re: building BREXX
yes, forgot about the .h files, noticed that just now when trying to compile on z/VM. lower case, fine. I prefer that too. yes, that would also be good for the wiki.
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#398
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Re: building BREXX
Added some missing files (just headers I think - also separated the .horig files following your approach) and made all the files lower case (sorry!!). Added some very rough instructions.txt for
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adriansutherland67
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Re: GCCLIB Advice
GLOBAL TXTLIB GCCLIB?is definitely needed in SYSPROF (for both GCCLIB and BREXX) however I don't understand the logic of what is included in the TEXT file being loaded high, and what can be left out
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Re: BREXX Login
Thanks Rene Rebuilt the BREXX module - I found I needed to issue a GLOBAL TXTLIB GCCLIB first for it to be happy (it had a few standard library missing symbols otherwise). btw - PDPCLIB is not what we
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Re: Docker image (1.4.1/latest) with GCCLIB 0.7.1
Just as well! :-)
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Re: Docker image (1.4.1/latest) with GCCLIB 0.7.1
Adrian, You tell me there is no BREXX module so its no linked at all. BREXX is re-linked with the dynamic library from the Profile EXEC I loaded the statically linked versions of EE and FSLIST etc
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Dave Wade
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Docker image (1.4.1/latest) with GCCLIB 0.7.1
This GCLIB version of 0.7.1 is almost identical to the last version available (i.e. I have not materially edited it ... yet!) docker pull adriansutherland/vm370:latest Interestingly both EE, FSLIST
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adriansutherland67
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Re: GCCLIB Advice
For info. TXTLIB did not work when run from sysprof exec when "installed globally" (it wa ok for a local install on cmsuser). Perhaps a disk is missing at that ipl stage? Anyway I have left it as a
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Re: BREXX Login
To correct that: gimme brexx 191 j mr J is the mode it needs to be attached to. Ren¨¦.
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Re: BREXX Login
Hi Adrian, that is correct, the BREXX user is just a placeholder to attach a disk volume to, so it cannot ipl cms. From another user, do ¡°gimme brexx 191 mr¡±, give the MULT password, and then you
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BREXX Login
Hello! On what I think is a clean sixpack 1.3 beta when I try and login to BREXX I just get CP If I IPL CMS, I get a message about Disk 190 being required. Other users are fine - and I can link to
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adriansutherland67
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Re: SNAP Macro
Steven, As others have said sometimes you need to include OSMACRO and use OS Macros. The supported macros are listed in the CMS User Guide. Rather than SNAP , you might want to use the PER. The CMS in
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Dave Wade
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Re: SNAP Macro
The SNAP macro is in the OSMACRO MACLIB S -- Drew Derbyshire How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?
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Re: SNAP Macro
The SNAP macro is simply a wrapper for the PDUMP macro. IIRC the parameters given to the SNAP macro are labels in the program whereas the PDUMP macro expects addresses in storage.
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George Shedlock <gshedlock352@...>
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Re: SNAP Macro
Hello! That's an excellent question. I don't know. Dave W might,. There are other books on the subject, two of them were written by Jeff Savit. He's an old friend of VM, and wrote those two whilst
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Gregg Levine
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SNAP Macro
I have been reading Sharon Tuggle's book "Assembler Language Programming: Systems/360 and 370" and it makes use of a macro SNAP on OS (MVS etc) which, from what I can tell, produces some kind of dump
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Steven Fosdick
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#383
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Re: building BREXX
I believe there is some memory/code shared by all CMS users. I vaguely remember writing something to check for an updated Y-disk, then re-access it if necessary. It was supposed to allow me to
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