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: How to distribute Rexx helpfiles?
wrote: So I did that, and the second and third bREXX betas have a BRXHELP VMARC file embedded inside the BREXXSRC VMARC file, and the bREXX installation tool (NEWBREXX EXEC) will unpack that onto the
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Ross Patterson
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
<williamedenton@...> wrote: Yup, that ship sailed when someone else created HRC452DK, which added the ";BASEnn" syntax. Ross
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Ross Patterson
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
[email protected]> wrote: I've uploaded it to the files area as HRC034DK.VMARC </g/h390-vm/files/hrc034dk.vmarc>. Syntax is easy: add the new "SEP <char>" option to the PER
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Ross Patterson
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Mike, I think the best help you can do is to test the new releases as they appear. Its good to have input from some one who is a little distant, and who reads the documents with a different outlook.
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Dave Wade
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Dave, I would be in favor of copying the files to vm370.org. I would also like to help in the vm370 environment in any capacity. Just not sure how that would be done. Best Regards, Mike
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Mike Rankin
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Hi Ross, Thank you for this. I see you have put them in the files section, which I think is fine, not sure about space., but will check later. Might be a good idea for me to store them on vm370.org as
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Dave Wade
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File Notifications
#file-notice
The following items have been added to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /hrc432ds.vmarc ( /g/h390-vm/files/hrc432ds.vmarc ) *By:* Ross Patterson
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File /hrc120ds.vmarc uploaded
#file-notice
The following items have been added to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /hrc120ds.vmarc ( /g/h390-vm/files/hrc120ds.vmarc ) *By:* Ross Patterson
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File /hrc080dk.vmarc uploaded
#file-notice
The following items have been added to the Files area of the [email protected] group. * /hrc080dk.vmarc ( /g/h390-vm/files/hrc080dk.vmarc ) *By:* Ross Patterson
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Ross, I'd suggest just placing your fixes in the Files section of this group.? Not everyone uses VM/CE and some of us are still on Sixpack 1.2 and I know at least one who is using the VMDIST 5-pack
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Bob Polmanter
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How to contribute some fixes?
As I've noted before, I've got a small number of fixes to contribute to the community, independent of the work I've been doing on bREXX. I've signed out update numbers for them for CP and CMS on the
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Ross Patterson
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Third and final beta of bREXX 1.1.0 now available
The third beta release of bREXX v1.1.0 for CMS on VM/370 is now available at https://github.com/RossPatterson/CMS-370-BREXX/releases/download/v1.1.0-beta-03/BREXX.zip. I have been testing this update
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Ross Patterson
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Alejandro, On Melinda Varian's web page you can also find "ZORK VMARC". VM/CE does support VMARC.? So, you can use VMARC UNPK to "unpack" the files in the VMARC archive file, You only need to issue:
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Mark Waterbury
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
back in 1983 when I worked in the IBM UK Education Centre we played ZORK under CMS. It was a FORTRAN program. As a result of the fun we had I wrote a book for Addison-Wesley on programming Adventure
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Dave Mitchell
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Further digging on error 220 doesn't look good: Explanation: FIOCS -- A data set reference number exceeds the limit specified for data set reference numbers when this operating system was generated. I
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Update: I have added a B minidisk to my VM user and unpacked vmarc onto it. genzork exec is indeed there... I do not know but whether the vmarc I'm using is the same one that the one found on Moshix
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Hi. The version I came across is this one found within an Archived internet site: https://web.archive.org/web/20050914173504/http://pucc.princeton.edu/~melinda/ I simply 'paste' bellow the relevant
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
<alejandro.olivan.alvarez@...> wrote: "Zork" means different things to different people, but yes, one of the early versions on the Colossal Cave adventure ran on CMS long ago, and
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Ross Patterson
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Greetings Alejandro, I cannot speak for pipes on CE, other than it does not exist. I¡¯m also actively working on getting Zork on CMS. The Zork version I have is from Moshix. Things to note: 1. Zork
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Mike Rankin
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ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Hi forum and Merry Christmas! I've stumbled with some cached web contents that, apparently, may indicate that Zork ran on CMS under VM/370. Sure, I've taken that with a grain of salt... I've that
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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