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: Lotus 1-2-3/M
Well, we have this info https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/gddm?topic=gddm-lotus1-3m a book https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mainframe_Databasing_with_Lotus_1_2_3_M/T8xQAAAAMAAJ and a Unix port (
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Stefan A. Haubenthal
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#6438
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Re: Lotus 1-2-3/M
As far as I know, nobody has it any more to have any experience with it. [email protected]> wrote: -- Jay Maynard
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Jay Maynard
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#6437
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Lotus 1-2-3/M
Hi there! Does anyone have experience with 1-2-3? -- VM/370 CE V1R1.2, Hercules on macOS
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Stefan A. Haubenthal
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#6436
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Re: Quotation mark bug?
Let's take this topic offline, to the issue <https://github.com/adesutherland/CMS-370-BREXX/issues/98>. It's more complex than you might think - see my latest update. Ross [email protected]> wrote:
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Ross Patterson
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Re: Quotation mark bug?
Apparently having the same bug, I noticed some error messages on my HercGUI console: CMS MAINT ========= rexxtry REXX interpreter running (CMS bREXX 1.0.1 Jul ?5 2022) Enter any valid REXX
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Herman Hartman
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#6434
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Re: Quotation mark bug?
At least VM/SP REXX/370 works fine, this a not common issue. -- VM/370 CE V1R1.2, Hercules on macOS
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Stefan A. Haubenthal
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#6433
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Re: Quotation mark bug?
REGINA seems to have a similar issue on win64. Output of empty.rex is similar to dir *. Sent: Freitag, 28. Februar 2025 17:09 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [h390-vm] Quotation mark bug?
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Mike Beer
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#6432
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Re: Quotation mark bug?
Similar to this is the following. This is the beta bREXX Ross made avaialble. l rexx * * ( date Filename Filetype Fm ?Format ? ?Recs Blocks ? ? Date ? ?Time REXX ? ? TEXT ? ? E1 ?F ? ?80
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6431
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Re: Quotation mark bug?
I've opened bREXX Issue #98 <https://github.com/adesutherland/CMS-370-BREXX/issues/98> for this. I can reproduce it in both bREXX 1.0.1 (*i.e.*, VM/370 CE 1.1.2) and the new bREXX 1.1.1. Ross
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Ross Patterson
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Re: BCPL request
Yes, but how do they help? Dave Sent: 28 February 2025 09:59 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [h390-vm] BCPL request I see. So far these posts are not CMS specific: 1978
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Dave Wade
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#6429
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Re: BCPL request
I see. So far these posts are not CMS specific: 1978 ( https://cds.cern.ch/record/1292450/files/n-137.pdf ) and 1984 ( https://groups.google.com/g/net.lang.c/c/ht4q3DU6nDM/m/HKI_UCOsJRIJ ). -- VM/370
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Stefan A. Haubenthal
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Re: How to save CMS system?
Ahh, yes.. people not playing nicely with other people's stuff.. that's why in the mid-70s my 2nd or 3rd CP mod was to force disconnect idle VMs after 10 minutes cheers, William
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William Denton
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Re: BCPL request
Never seen BCPL on VM/CMS. Can't find any downloads. Martin Richards still has a web page but no VM/CMS version on there... I think you might be on
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Dave Wade
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#6426
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BCPL request
https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/BCPL/index.html#IBM says -- VM/370 CE V1R1.2, Hercules on macOS
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Stefan A. Haubenthal
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#6425
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Re: How to save CMS system?
The VMREAD is there for the SAVESYS CMS as well as for an ACCESS (NOPROF. I remember the early days at IBM's VM test center in Belgium: people that left their 3270 logged on often suffered from
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kris.buelens@...
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Re: How to save CMS system?
You're missing a crucial detail for an absolutely safe RENAME * CP LINK sharedDisk xxxx 111 M * ACCESS 111 N * COPYFILE ABC EXEC A ABC NEWEXEC N (OLDDATE * RENAME ABC EXEC N = OLDEXEC N (NOUPDIRT *
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kris.buelens@...
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#6423
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Re: How to save CMS system?
While is in some ways a silly analogy it might help to think of *CP* (Control Program in VM/CMS environments) as *BIOS* (in traditional PCs) - hit the wrong key during a reboot and, ...the results are
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keniry@...
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Re: How to save CMS system?
Thanks, it worked perfectly. I honestly never imagined that one <enter> too many could cause such a problem. Thanks again, I'm going to stop playing with teddy bears and go back to turkeys. Marco
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M Verpelli
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Re: How to save CMS system?
I think so. Thats why it pauses after IPL so you can save the CMS segment Dave
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Dave Wade
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Re: How to save CMS system?
[email protected]> wrote: Yes. That's specifically because CMS keeps a copy of the file directory of the S and Y disks in the saved system, so if you don't do this, the CMS users won't see the
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Ross Patterson
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