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: Do I have a looping issue?
Joe Monk wrote: [...] Huh?! Why WOULDN'T it?! -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories http://www.softdevlabs.com mail: fish@...
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Fish Fish
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
yep definitely odd. But here's the real question ... why is hercules seeing/reporting it? There's code in IEAVEVAL to trap via FRR a protection exception that occurs due to compare and swap ...
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Joe Monk
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Joe Monk wrote: [...] That's odd, because according to Wikipedia, MVS 3.8j was released in 1981: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MVS#Modern_MVS and the TPROT instruction exists plain as day in the
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
"Which I completely agree with! Executing a CS instruction and checking to see whether or not it causes a protection exception program interrupt is a rather piss-poor way to determine if an address is
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Joe Monk
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
There is wiki space on groups.io. /g/h390-vm/wiki I just tweaked the settings so its visible to non-members, members can edit. Dave Sent: 26 October 2022 21:19 To: [email protected]
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Dave Wade
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Ren¨¦ Ferland wrote: What? You mean fuck/fucking? Nah! Doesn't bother me at all. ;-) Well you certainly did NOT upset me if that's what you were worried about. Profanity doesn't bother me AT ALL. (And
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
I love the idea of a WIKI for VM/CE. I guess we need to find a place to host our own VM/CE Wikipedia. I found: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_hosting_services and
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
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Dave Wade
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
A good point, but there might also be a document, easily found, that says: "What to do if...." for this situation for those of us don't have the experience ( or memory ) of what to do as an operator
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Brian McCullough
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
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Dave Wade
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Hello Fish, My turn to I apologize for the f word in my message, I did not want to upset you (or anyone else here). Since English is not my native language, I guess I'd better stay away from the "big
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Ren¨¦ Ferland
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
I'm not one of the Herc mainters, but thank you for the comment to this thread and to them.
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
Fish wrote: [...] And in the interest of possibly helping out the VM/CE maintainers, creating a simple 0-length file ("touch foo") upon normal Hercules shutdown/exit might possibly work. Then simply
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Fish Fish
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
Hello, Thank you to both Fish (David) and Dave for your reply. I got it up and running with /CKPT I was trying other stuff (which I need not go into). Bertram WB8ERT
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
Bertram Moshier wrote: Did you let it? Or did it reboot on its own without even asking you? Because if it's the latter (rebooted on its own without even asking you) then I would complain to Microsoft!
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
You need to tell VM what to do as it can¡¯t find warm start data. So /cold /force /ckpt Will do what you want. I usually use ¡°/force¡± but I think ¡°/cold¡± is safer but it will lose any spool
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Dave Wade
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It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
Hi, My Windows system rebooted on its own (for an update) and VM didn't shutdown. I'm getting the following on my screen. I can't remember how to fix this situation. Any help would be appreciated.
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Dave Wade wrote: [...] Well yeah, of course, that's one of the reasons. But the primary reason is because there exist instructions purposely designed for (meant for) determining such things:
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Fish Fish
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
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Dave Wade
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Ren¨¦ Ferland wrote: What they MEAN? Or WHY they're being issued? I suspect you actually meant you have no f*** idea WHY they're being issued, right? Because WHAT they MEAN should be obvious: a
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