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.
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Re: A question about Xephon publicatiion(s)
All the VMUpdate files are available in the files section of this group list. So you can refer to them here as well. /g/h390-vm/files/Xephon_VM_Update The following articles were
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: A question about Xephon publicatiion(s)
Yes, I do have few copies of VM Update (first few numbers 1986 and 1987). I also downloaded (VM Update, CICS Update, MVS Update, VSAM Update and VSE Update) which were available on archive.org. If you
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mikeci@...
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Re: A question about Xephon publicatiion(s)
Hi, Mike, The official repository of all the Xephon articles (that we have copies of) are here: https://cbttape.org/xephon/ See here for an explanation of the status of those articles and permitted
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Mark Waterbury
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A question about Xephon publicatiion(s)
Hi! I noticed post containing old Xephon publications containing VMUpdate old articles from 1987-1995.? One can find pdf copies of VMUpdate since 1997. What is the copyright now? Are we allowed to
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mikeci@...
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Re: Anyone have a VM Assembly language and/or Rexx
Mark Waterbury wrote: [...] Good. Because I saw nothing that seemed private in your reply, and yes, it seemed beneficial to the community to me too. -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development
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Fish Fish
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Re: Anyone have a VM Assembly language and/or Rexx
Hi, Fish, Thanks for pointing out my error ... I had sent a private copy to Bertram, then decided others might benefit from reading the response (for posterity), and copied/pasted the text, but forgot
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Mark Waterbury
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Re: Anyone have a VM Assembly language and/or Rexx
Mark Waterbury wrote: Oops? :) -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories http://www.softdevlabs.com mail: fish@...
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Re: Anyone have a VM Assembly language and/or Rexx
Hi, Bertram, (private reply to you only...) I am not exactly sure what you may be looking for? What kinds of features comprises a "VM Assembler Toolkit"? For example, one popular option added
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Mark Waterbury
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Anyone have a VM Assembly language and/or Rexx
Hello, When I was in college I started an IBM 370 VM Assembly language toolkit. Over the years I upgraded it to include XA, 390, and ESA, as well as Rexx. Unfortunately I wasn't able to keep it / save
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: Register Add - Quick Question
DOS/VS had an identical bug in it too as I recall. -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories http://www.softdevlabs.com mail: fish@...
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Re: Register Add - Quick Question
Probably the same way MVS 3.8J did - checked to see if the address was 16M and bailed out of the loop. Laddie
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Re: Register Add - Quick Question
Wonder how the VM guys handled this new system. [email protected]> wrote:
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: Register Add - Quick Question
Regarding 24 bit addressing with 32 bit arithmetic. ?When addressing memory in 24 bit mode, only the low 24 bits of the 32 bit generated address are used. I worked in Poughkeepsie in the early '70s
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James Oswald
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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Take care of yourself Martin!.? ?VM/370 is aging but like fine wine it's only getting better.? Thanks for your contributions and hope you feel well enough to return to your normal programming
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Sam Knutson
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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I am still sick since more than two months. I have paused all programming and documentation efforts. It is not directly threatening but it makes me unable to think. Martin
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: Getting NICOF running with VM CE
Both EE and NICOF bypassed strict C runtime library calls, and called CMS low level library routines directly. Some of those internal interfaces were updated to support BREXX on CMS. I had to update
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Bob Bolch
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Getting NICOF running with VM CE
On a semi-related topic to the recent TCP/IP discussions, has anyone gotten NICOF ( https://github.com/devhawala/nicof ) running on VM CE? I've tinkered with it a bit in the past, but it seems to be
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Joe Young
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Re: Hercules VM TCPIP - current situation?
*snicker* "Transporting X code to Y does not always end happily." (It's simpler) OTOH, the BSD code has ranged far and wide ¡ (It's simpler)
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
I imagine from a real tape which came with the tapes used to build the original system. From what I remember, and it's a fuzzy memory, the process was that each site that received a copy agreed to
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Dave Wade
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Does anyone know if Bob Abele is still around to ask? My GUESS is he got it from the University of Waterloo, since they are identical. [xmas@vm370dev tapes]$ diff abele_waterloo.aws WATERLOO6.aws
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Mark A. Stevens
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