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: VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
Interesting, because VM/ESA 370 is still DMK. That says it's not HPO like I was told it was. Not that I have any hardware on which it would make a difference... [email protected]> wrote: -- Jay
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Jay Maynard
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Re: VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
"when did DMK become HCP?" HCP started as the prefix for the High Performance Option (HPO) for VM/SP. The HCP code was a 1-to-1 replacement for the SP DMK code. Kind regards, Gary
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gdblodgett
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Re: VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
It would be when the short lived VM/XA appeared. Its been a while but doesn't VM/ESA 370 feature still have DMK CP Modules. So 370 mode == DMK, XA/ESA/Z == HCP Dave
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
So, thinking back a ways... I ran a large VM shop from /370 r3, SEPP, SP, HPO, and maybe one more after that before the bank decided that MVS (yuk) was the way to go... I am trying to remember... when
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William Denton
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Re: VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
I found this detailed summary of the history and evolution of various features throughout the lifetime of VM/ESA: https://www.vm.ibm.com/techinfo/vmfblank.html
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Mark Waterbury
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Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience
#VMCE
Thank you Ross! REGEQU worked like a charm, i didn't need to do anything, being logged in as CMSUSER, to get the macro compiled correctly. Now i'm looking at some video that promise to be interesting:
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Lucio
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Re: VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
My understanding, from back then, was that VM/ESA 1.0 (so-called "370 edition") was a "mid-life kicker" to keep VM/SP and HPO customers happy, and allow them to migrate to VM/ESA, taking advantage of
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Mark Waterbury
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Re: VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
Well as it was not VM/SP it had a new licence, so extracted money from those still on 370-only machines. It had the bi-modal capable CMS so it broke quite a few applications, but it didn't actually
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Dave Wade
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Re: VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
As I understand it, VM/ESA 370 Feature v1 was effectively VM/SP HPO release 7. I think they renamed it to assuage concerns about how long VM/ESA was taking, or something. [email protected]>
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Jay Maynard
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VM/ESA 370 (was Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience)
I never did understand why they came up with that oxymoron of a name for VM/SP.? What DID it have? Did it even include VM/SP HPO? -ahd- ¡ª Drew Derbyshire Software Hobbit (SRE Emeritus) Kendra
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience
#VMCE
Actually, VSE/ESA version 1, like VM/ESA 370 Feature, had an ESA name but ran on 370. Even that probably wouldn't run on VM/CE, and wouldn't be licensed anyway. [email protected]> wrote: -- Jay
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Jay Maynard
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Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience
#VMCE
[email protected]> wrote: Yes: REGEQU. You can instruct the assembler how to find it by the GLOBAL MACLIB CMSLIB command. 2. Is it possible to run VSE/ESA under VM/370? > No. VSE/ESA will not run in
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Ross Patterson
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Re: VM/370 new thrilling experience
#VMCE
ESA is a newer architecture than VM/370 was designed to handle - it uses 31-bit addressing where VM/370 is from the older 24-bit addressing era. I believe the matching OS of the 370 era would have
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Frank D. Engel, Jr.
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VM/370 new thrilling experience
#VMCE
I would like to congratulate with the group because of the great work around the VM/370 CE 1.2. I was in the 70-80s a system programmer in VSE but never approached VM seriously. The 6 pack run
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Lucio
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Re: EE goes XEDIT - testing new features
#rexx
#VMCE
Get well [email protected]> wrote: -- Ken Dreger
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Ken Dreger
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Re: EE goes XEDIT - testing new features
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#VMCE
Good luck Martin!
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PD
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Re: EE goes XEDIT - testing new features
#rexx
#VMCE
I am packing my bags for a hospital stay of 3 weeks or longer. I cannot do any VM related work until I have returned and recovered. Martin
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: First beta of bREXX 1.1.0 now available
[email protected]> wrote: Now that the hard work for bREXX 1.1.0 is done, I'm going to start playing with EENEW. I'm really excited to try it! My workaround is to begin all REXX programs with
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Ross Patterson
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Re: How to distribute Rexx helpfiles?
<mark.s.waterbury@...> wrote: bREXX has an established practice for distribution, which I have repeated for the upcoming release. The code is built completely on GitHub (including
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Ross Patterson
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Re: How to distribute Rexx helpfiles?
i, Ross, How are you packaging and delivering the actual code for distribution currently? I would create a VMARC archive file that contains all of those help files that need to go on the MAINT 19D
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Mark Waterbury
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