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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File /GG22-9277-00 VM370 Maintenance Made Simple - May 1982.pdf uploaded
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The following files and folders have been uploaded to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /GG22-9277-00 VM370 Maintenance Made Simple - May 1982.pdf (
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Anyone who is serious about creating CP and/or CMS user modifications should definitely read Melinda Varian's "What Mother Never Told You" and IBM's WSC "VM Maintenance Made Simple" -- both are
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Mark Waterbury
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Yes, I can assist with anyone needing access.? I personally do nothing with the repo, but many others are happily working with it.? Just let me know if any assistance is required. Harold Grovesteen
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Harold Grovesteen
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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I really don't know why but I have always thought of PF10 as being the RETRIEVE key... don't know where that came from cheers, William
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William Denton
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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It looks like I have reached a break-through. I have reworked the SUBCOM interface of EE and the macro facility seems to be much more stable. As a proof of concept, EE gives control to a special macro
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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In favor of - "is there really any serious interest in continuing the "Community Edition" idea?¡± Mike
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Mike Rankin
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Hello, There's a BREXX fix for the NUMERIC bug I found where CMS crashes hard (requires a reipl). It would be great for it to be included, too. Bert [email protected]> wrote:
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Ross, Thanks for raising all these issues with VM/CE. How do you think we should proceed? Do you want to build a ¡°Beta¡±? Dave Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 9:10 PM To: [email protected] Cc:
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Dave Wade
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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There is at least one fix in BREXX that I'd like to see make it into the next VM/CR release: https://github.com/adesutherland/CMS-370-BREXX/pull/76 implements the SIGNAL ON FAILURE instruction, and
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Ross Patterson
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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I couldn't agree more about the SES thing. All of those attempts at automating the application of service just seem to make things more obscure and complicated. I forget the name of the EXEC that was
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William Denton
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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That¡¯s Harold Grovesteen¡¯s¡ Dave Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2024 3:37 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [h390-vm] Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE #VMCE
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Dave Wade
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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*** Sorry for the rash of postings. I'm catching up from watching my grandson 4 days per week, and a wife with Parkinson's Disease. *** I am definitely interested in keeping it going. Like most of us,
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Mark, I own that web site so no problems with getting it updated. What I should do is try and arrange for some sort of inheritance on that and on the groups.io group. Dave Sent: Wednesday, August 28,
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Dave Wade
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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I nominate Tony ? ... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Does anyone have the same level of access to https://github.com/s390guy/vm370 as Bob had? ... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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If you go to the following web site, you will see as http://www.vm370.org/ This is where Bob posted the ready-for-prime-time releases. Does anyone, other than Bob, have write access to this site? I
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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From older discussions on which key to use, these two seem most likely. CP SET PF09 RETRIEVE CP SET PF12 ERTRIEVE This is what I have found useful for me when using MAINT on VM/370 CE 1.1.2
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Ok sorry for top posting. I need to sort a better e-mail client than Outlook. Microsoft is crippling it and Thunderbird struggles with using IMAP to a large mailbox¡. So I feel PUT tapes are out!.
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Dave Wade
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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[email protected]> wrote: For the old-time VMers among us, yeah, shipping a tape with a few minidisks of update files would do the job, but only because we remember all the stuff Melinda wrote in
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Ross Patterson
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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I was wondering if always just shipping a ZIP archive of completely refreshed Hercules disks is the right VM-ish way to deal with releases... Granted, we always need that for new installs but what
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William Denton
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