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: VM/370 CE Assembler F, Assembler XF
[email protected]> wrote: Assembler F and XF are indeed completely different programs. For whatever reasons, IBM appears to have written XF to the same specs as F, but from scratch. There are a
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Tony Harminc
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#5392
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VM/370 CE Assembler F, Assembler XF
I am still trying, as I can find time, to get Assembler G installed on VM/370. I've run into an EXEC that mentions Assembler F as separate from Assembler XF. Is that true/possible? I only find
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5391
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
Dave's right - if you want to preserve your SPOOL files (which can sometimes be recovered by a checkpoint start), and avoid the start prompt, don't just close Hercules. Instead, issue a /SHUTDOWN
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Ross Patterson
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
wrote: OK, so here's some more explanation of the magic :-) /18:32:35 AUTO LOGON *** OPERATOR USERS = 001 BY SYSTEM > > Once the SPOOL has been recovered or cleared, the system operator userid
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Ross Patterson
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
Steve, Normally it would come up on its own. The reason you are seeing this is because it hasn¡¯t been shutdown properly, because you have had issues bringing it up in the past. Dave Sent: Monday,
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
Hi Steve, well, it depends on whether CP can find valid warmstart data or not; when you carefully shut it down (when logged in as MAINT (or another properly privileged user) issue a SHUTDOWN) it will
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[email protected]
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
Thank you Ross, simple as that! I have never used VM/370; never advanced further than DOS/VS in the 1970s..... All the videos I've seen of this startup have been automatic all the way the the VM/370
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Steve Shepherd
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
wrote: CP is waiting for your answer to this question. Until you tell it how you want to start up, nothing else will happen, including enabling terminals. Type your answer starting with a slash (which
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Ross Patterson
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
Hello Dave, Thanks for responding. Either by running "Vm3270CE" from the command prompt, or double clicking from the File Explorer I get the following: HHC00100I Thread id 00002958, prio 5, name
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Steve Shepherd
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
Steve, When you say ¡°ran the batch file¡± was this from a CMD prompt or clicking from a file explorer window? Can you post a screen shot? If you just type ¡°Hercules¡± on the command line before
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Dave Wade
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Re: Devices and 2nd Level VM
Don't attach the real reader to the the guest. Just punch the file to VMTEST. This is something that I tried at one point.? The file looked like it was punched (according to the system response), but
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Daniel L. Srebnick
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#5382
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Re: Devices and 2nd Level VM
picture, this is the better answer. -- Jeff Henry
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Jeff Henry
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Re: Devices and 2nd Level VM
That worked, although I did have to map 00C on the 1st level to 10c on the 2nd level because of a conflict with the virtual RDR already at 00C. Thank you.
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Daniel L. Srebnick
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Re: Devices and 2nd Level VM
Don't attach the real reader to the the guest. Just punch the file to VMTEST. If you're shipping the file from the host os into Hercules, then inject it with a leading ID card: "ID VMTEST CLASS A". De
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Dennis Boone
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Re: Devices and 2nd Level VM
Daniel, If Q 00C on the second-level system is showing that it is offline, you'll need to vary it on and start it on the 2nd level system. q 00c RDR 00C OFFLINE Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:41:53 vary on 00c
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Jeff Henry
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Devices and 2nd Level VM
I've create a 2nd level VM that I will use as a testing sandbox.? Let's call it VMTEST. I need to copy a virtual card deck to the A minidisk of MAINT on VMTEST. I understand how to devinit the deck
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Daniel L. Srebnick
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Re: VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
Oops that should be Hercules Hyperion 4.6.0.....
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Steve Shepherd
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VM37CE, Hercules and Windows 11
Hello, I've downloaded VM370CE 1.1.2 onto my Windows 11 (Pro Insider Review). I already had Hercules 3.0.7 (64 bit) installed. In the VM370CE directory I ran the batch file "vm370ce" and as expected
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Steve Shepherd
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Re: VIRT=REAL
Perfect!? Must have done this before and promptly forgotten.? That won't happen again!
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Daniel L. Srebnick
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Re: VIRT=REAL
Please refer to the file readme-virtreal.txt which is in the CE download package (in the root folder unpacked from the distribution).
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.
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#5373
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