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: Networking a selection of Hercules systems running VM/370rel6
Hello! Now remember I mentioned VM/370rel6 here, because that is the list focus. As is I believe it was possible for a system running a full featured system running it to do so. But I am not sure
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Gregg Levine
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Re: Networking a selection of Hercules systems running VM/370rel6
Oops, that's MVS 3.8.? Sorry.
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ScottC
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Re: Networking a selection of Hercules systems running VM/370rel6
What about Moshix's HNET ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_esBksImCg
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ScottC
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#5903
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Networking a selection of Hercules systems running VM/370rel6
Hello! Let us presuppose I have gotten a Hercules setup running the currently available release of the community edition of VM/370rle6. Not of course the two disk setup I normally run. What would be
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Gregg Levine
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#5902
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Re: User Program DEBUGging in CMS
#VMCE
Using the U of Maine PER facility is the ONLY way to go with debugging.. Its intro in the late 70's(?) era was, in my mind, the single biggest advancement to VM program development. Every VM shop
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William Denton
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#5901
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Not relevant. Jim has an SP5 or SP6 system. Dave
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Dave Wade
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Re: Looking for a manual or a little help. . .
Hello! Jim just for everyone's benefit, but also mine, can you restate all of your steps? I still run the original system when I feel I need to do something. Presupposing that the tools to do so are
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Gregg Levine
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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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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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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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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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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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