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: 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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Re: OT: SDFVM access
I routinely check all the systems I valet (by connecting to each login screen) at ~8 AM PDT (~3 PM UTC); Hercules for SDFVM crashed yesterday at 12:26 PM PDT. SDFVM has now been restarted. -ahd-
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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32.000 elements = 32.000 bits = 4k size (of course) ... sorry about that Am 27.08.2024 um 17:01 schrieb Bernd Oppolzer via groups.io:
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Bernd Oppolzer
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Am 27.08.2024 um 12:43 schrieb Dave Wade: Yes, I hope :-) in fact, I am doing the development on the Windows variant first, because this means creating and defining new P-Code instructions etc., then
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Bernd Oppolzer
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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>From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer via groups.io >Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2024 2:34 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [h390-vm] Contributing to, Building,
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Dave Wade
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Re: Workshop Tapes - was Re: Examine RDR Files
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Dave Wade
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Re: Workshop Tapes - was Re: Examine RDR Files
Dave Wade wrote: [...] Great! I'll see what I can do! [...] Indeed! [...] I can't say. I would need to know about the BLOKTAP format first. Hmmm... You mean "BLOCKTAP"?! (Doh!) Silly me! You wrote
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Fish Fish
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Re: Workshop Tapes - was Re: Examine RDR Files
Tony Harminc wrote: Because the Hercules vmfplc2.exe utility is not the same thing as the Hercules emulator. It's just a simple command-line program. Hercules must emulate a real tape device, and real
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Fish Fish
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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This may be a little topic drift, but ... I am the contributor of the New Stanford Pascal compiler, which is part of the VM370CE. When I have a new version of the compiler (which I have in fact), the
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Bernd Oppolzer
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Re: OT: SDFVM access
Drew, It appears to be down tonight. (well its midnight here). Do you have any input? Dave Sent: Sunday, August 4, 2024 4:05 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [h390-vm] OT: SDFVM access The VM/SP
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Dave Wade
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Tony, Pretty sure it is not rocket science to produce an EXEC to take a user mode and convert it to an OFFICIAL mod¡ Dave Sent: 26 August 2024 20:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [h390-vm]
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Dave Wade
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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[email protected]> wrote: s390guy/vm370 <https://github.com/s390guy/vm370/issues/106> or SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion <https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion> for everything I discover, and then
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Ross Patterson
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Re: Workshop Tapes - was Re: Examine RDR Files
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Dave Wade
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Re: Workshop Tapes - was Re: Examine RDR Files
On Mon, 26 Aug 2024 at 15:05, Fish Fish via groups.io <david.b.trout= [email protected]> wrote: [...] > Just as an explanation, Herc's vmfplc2 will never be as easy to use as > VM's, due to the need
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Tony Harminc
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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[email protected]> wrote: The only problem I see with that is that it's traditional to flag new or changed source lines with the fix ID, and if that's not known until someone else assigns it... Tony
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Tony Harminc
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Re: Contributing to, Building, and Maintaining VM370CE
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Hi Folks William, thanks for posting on here.. 1. I suggest that we build our updates using our own numbers on the user build disks. We can then sort out ¡°official¡± (I hate that word) numbers when
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Dave Wade
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