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: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Yay! I finally got CMS saved. The command I used from MAINT was 'IPL 190 CL PARM SAVESYS CMS'. The Shared S-STAT message no longer displays whenever a user machine logs on. Case closed.
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Jim Snellen
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#5898
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Eddy, Thanks! I have both of those manuals and I¡¯ll check them again for the rebuild steps. Jim
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Jim Snellen
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#5897
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
I suggest you look on bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/vm/sp/release_6_Jul88 and get SC19-6201-06 (VM SP 6 planning guide) and SC24-5237-4? ( VM SP 6 installation guide) as you appear to be using VMSPR6. As I
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eddy_balem@...
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#5896
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Not sure what the problem is without knowing some more information.Size of CMSUSER? 2M, 8M, 16M? Directory entry for CMSUSER is 1024K After saving, did you have MAINT do IPL CMS? What happened? Just
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Jim Snellen
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#5895
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Not sure what the problem is without knowing some more information.Size of CMSUSER? 2M, 8M, 16M? After saving, did you have MAINT do IPL CMS? What happened? However, you might also look at Melinda
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5894
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Thanks everyone! I¡¯ve already downloaded the available PDFs from bitsavers for release 6. Looking at the bibliography of some of those documents suggest there are others that hopefully someone might
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Jim Snellen
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#5893
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/370/VM/ <mark.s.waterbury@...> wrote: -- Jeff Henry
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Jeff Henry
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#5892
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Hi, Jim, There are many VM/SP manuals here -- bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/VM/SP/ You did not mention what version or release of VM/SP you are looking for? Hope that helps, Mark
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Mark Waterbury
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#5891
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Good morning, You are looking for VM/SP documentation 5664-167. A newer version of CP Commands and Utilities Reference Can be found here: <https://publib.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/hcse4c00.pdf> z/VM:
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Mike Beer
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#5890
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Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Hello, I'm needing a manual for 5664-167, 'CP System Command Reference SC24-5402', *- OR -* a solution. I stumbled upon a process to rebuild CP and was successful in assembling DMKSYS and DMKRIO using
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Jim Snellen
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#5889
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Re: Anyone have experience in extending VM/CE under Hercules worldwide?
For auto tape mounts (and other Operator requests), I would look at the 'AutoMount' member of the Waterloo Mods Tapes. This predates even VMCF and I would look to update it to use VMCF. I don't think
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Thomas Kern
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#5888
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Re: Anyone have experience in extending VM/CE under Hercules worldwide?
* Extend printers to their computer and local printers. ?Thought is the HercPRT program. There is also virtual1403 on Github. * Is there an auto tape mount feature? Someone on the Discord channel I
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5887
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Re: Is it possible to start VM/CE unattended?
Moshix on Youtube has videos about numerous IT things. He also has systems, I believe some can log into, so he's got experience with this. You could also explore, besides the other suggestions, use of
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Mark A. Stevens
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#5886
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Re: AUTOLOG1 191 disk
I have no idea, but PROFILE AUTOEXEC is never used. Dave
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Dave Wade
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#5885
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AUTOLOG1 191 disk
On VM/CE 1.2, why does the AUTOLOG1 191 disk have a PROFILE AUTOEXEC and a PROFILE EXEC. It looks like the former is a abbreviated one?
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Doug Wegscheid
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#5884
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Anyone have experience in extending VM/CE under Hercules worldwide?
Hello, Several college and other friends are looking to bring back the glory (old men) days, when VM/370 R6 PLC 29 brought us together (and later VM/SP). To this end, I'm looking for those who have
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Bertram Moshier
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#5883
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Re: How can you send a private message to a member of this group?
In this case, it's pretty trivial to see that the person's email address is actually zerohero0h@.... -Dave
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Dave McGuire
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#5882
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Re: Is it possible to start VM/CE unattended?
Sounds iteresting, I'll give it a try. [email protected]> wrote:
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Bertram Moshier
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#5881
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Re: How can you send a private message to a member of this group?
Hello, I copied and pasted the person's email address, and it bounced. Your message wasn't delivered to zerohero0h@... because the address couldn't be found, or is unable to receive
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Bertram Moshier
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#5880
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Re: Is it possible to start VM/CE unattended?
Adrian Sutherland, of BREXX fame, has a tool he uses to automate Hercules when running under contributions of GitHub Actions. He uses it to build BREXX under VM/CE CMS in a GitHub Linux instead, but
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Ross Patterson
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#5879
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