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: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Mark, Just found that. There seems to be some issues with some of the early tapes, but generally PETAPE works ¡°a bit¡±¡ Dave Sent: Monday, April 1, 2024 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re:
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Dave Wade
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#5579
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Dave, this leads to a couple more questions... Is Bloktap part of the R6 / CE distribution?? I can sort of understand it being there if the source is available so that someone might fix it. While I
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Harold Grovesteen
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#5578
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Hi, Dave, The old WATERLOO tapes used "PETAPE" (Perkin-Elmer's locally modified version of the original CMS TAPE command).? For those versions of the SHARE VM Project Waterloo tapes, they also
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Mark Waterbury
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#5577
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Sorry, I meant 1.2 VMCE has BLOCKTAP included. Bob Bolch [email protected]> wrote:
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Bob Bolch
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#5576
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
BLOCKTAP runs on VMCE release 1.3 Bob Bolch
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Bob Bolch
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#5575
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Harold, After looking back through the archives, it seems these were created with Bloktap which doesn¡¯t work on R6. Dave Sent: Monday, April 1, 2024 1:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re:
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Dave Wade
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#5574
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Just curiosity I realize there seems to be some heritage involved in all of this, but does anyone know which tool creates the garbage? Is there a tool that removes the unexpected content from the AWS
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Harold Grovesteen
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#5573
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Mark, I¡¯ll check these later, but many AWS tapes end in errors because one of the tools used to create them leaves garbage at the end of the file. Dave Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2024 11:48 PM To:
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Dave Wade
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#5572
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
The other day I was browsing through the messages here and the message concerning Monitor files had this link: Some of these files are Waterloo tapes, while others are from VM Workshops. I downloaded
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Allan J. Winston
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#5571
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
Hello! There's another problem folks. And it is not the fault of the three here named Dave, it is the problem of the maintainers of the CBT site. That page referenced earlier is now out of date. Oh
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Gregg Levine
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Re: "Waterloo Tapes" in H390-VM group's Files area
I was scanning through the WATERLOO tapes which I got from here. WATERLOO2 and WATERLOO6 end with errors. Does any one have an alternate source for these? ... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5569
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Re: BREXX installation instructions
Several months later, I put all that stuff up on GitHub at https://github.com/RossPatterson/VMARC , because OOCities was a read-only mirror of the GeoCities site I built back around 2002 :-)? I did
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Ross Patterson
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File /sadump-s370.tar.gz uploaded
#file-notice
The following files and folders have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /sadump-s370.tar.gz ( /g/h390-vm/files/sadump-s370.tar.gz ) *By:* Harold
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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#5567
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Re: Virtual Machine Memory
Thanks!
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Harold Grovesteen
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#5566
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Re: Virtual Machine Memory
Harold, I think I turned attachments off. Just create a temp folder in the files section and upload, then only those who need it download it. Dave Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2024 2:58 PM To:
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Dave Wade
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#5565
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Re: Virtual Machine Memory
Thanks so much for your responses. My first question, can the VM's memory contents be "extracted" from the virtual machine and this content be moved from the VM system for processing is in fact
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Harold Grovesteen
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#5564
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Re: Virtual Machine Memory
Wondering if the proposed new command could actually be added at the CP level instead of the CMS/MVS level. CP might save the state of the machine to a prepared location in DASD then restore it when
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.
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#5563
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Re: Virtual Machine Memory
Hello Harold, What you desire doesn't exist in VM/370 today, but it is possible. Cray Supercomputers are real memory systems that use swapping to allow multiple users to use the same real memory
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Bertram Moshier
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#5562
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Re: Virtual Machine Memory
Hi Harold, All versions of VM, from VM/370 through z/VM support the CP DUMP command.? This command dumps virtual machine storage to the virtual machine's printer.? The issuer of the command can
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Bob Polmanter
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#5561
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Re: Virtual Machine Memory
Harold, It probably won't be what you are looking for, but back in the early 80's, I fooled around with the SAVESYS command to save images of DOS release 27.? However, they were fairly useless since
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Allan J. Winston
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#5560
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