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: Help with SMSG and RSCS message: NOT AUTHORIZED
Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT Hi Bill, As well as the ability to accept SMSG commands, I also have updates to enable VM/370 RSCS to host NJE links (just
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Peter Coghlan
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Re: Help with SMSG and RSCS message: NOT AUTHORIZED
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Bill Doughty
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Re: Help with SMSG and RSCS message: NOT AUTHORIZED
Hi Bill, There was some sort of misunderstanding between Dave and I and somehow the VM/370 sixpack
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Peter Coghlan
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Help with SMSG and RSCS message: NOT AUTHORIZED
Hi All!! I'm trying to work with the VM/370 sixpack 1.3 Beta 3 and it looks like a really nice piece of work! Thank's Dave Wade and everybody who put in the work and made it available for us clueless
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Bill Doughty
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Re: Hi again
But perhaps we should put a posting on yahoo groups redirecting to here. Have 2 forums going is going to be confusing..... Sent from AT&T Yahoo Mail on Android On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 12:14 PM, Dave
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Doug Wegscheid
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Re: Hi again
Olaf, There is no compulsion. The Yahoo group still works for e-mail. Just mails can't be retained and nor can files. I was hoping to populate the wiki as well with some instruction but got
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Dave Wade
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Hi again
Hi there, I just joined this groups.io thing. Was I supposed to have some announcement via the Yahoo list to join here? If so, it didn't work, since I don't recall receiving anything. The last thing I
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Rhialto
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And the Internet turned fifty last week
Hello! Read this and react: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/10/50-years-ago-today-the-internet-was-born-sort-of/ " Depending on how you look at it, the Internet turned 50 years old
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Gregg Levine
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Re: Test!
first post test. thanks
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Mark Gutzwiller
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Re: VM/SP features (was Re: Differences between S/380 and XA mode?)
Drew, Well I arrived at SP4. The VM Share archives have the summary from some off the release notes which largely agree.. http://vm.marist.edu/~vmshare/vmshare.cgi Dave Sent: 28 October 2019 17:07 To:
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Dave Wade
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VM/SP features (was Re: Differences between S/380 and XA mode?)
A short VM/SP history summary: * VM/SP 1 (I think, I didn't show up until VM/SP 3). o IUCV o XEDIT o EXEC2 * VM/SP 3 o REXX * VM/SP 4 o GCS o DIAG x'8C' (querying your console display size) * VM/SP 5
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Differences between S/380 and XA mode?
Timothy, I am not sure when XEDIT appeared, SP1 I think or REXX . Whilst folks have written a screen mode editor and installed a portable REXX on VM//370 they don't interact in the same way that XEDIT
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Dave Wade
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Re: Differences between S/380 and XA mode?
memory above the "line" is real, non-paged memory, so must be shared among all VMs that use it. That would really need a major re-write of CP the VM hypervisor. I can't see it happening. licence. XA
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Timothy Stark
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Re: Differences between S/380 and XA mode?
I'll take suggestions on it (send mail directly to me). the AID keys. Thanks but I already read that. I was able use PF and PA keys on x3270 and Vista TN3270 that I purchased for $30. When it
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Timothy Stark
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Re: Differences between S/380 and XA mode?
See https://wiki.livingcomputers.org/doku.php?id=vm_cms_survival_guide; I'll take suggestions on it (send mail directly to me). Also look at https://github.com/swhobbit/x3270pro, which may help you
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: random OS/2 trivia
Certain OS/2 binary system data files were known for getting easily corrupted and causing crashes.? IBM support was telling customers do a clean reinstall of OS/2 so often that it was a bad cliche.?
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: random OS/2 trivia
CP/67 was written in that era, you'll find people who write of getting TTY's for CP/67 (or was it CTSS?) terminals at home. Since HARLIE competed with IBM, that's doubtful. OTOH, I think our 2019 MINI
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Drew Derbyshire
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Re: Differences between S/380 and XA mode?
Tim, VM/380 mode simply allows access to more than 16Mbytes of memory. The memory above the "line" is real, non-paged memory, so must be shared among all VMs that use it. It does not implement XA or
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Dave Wade
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Re: Listserv, Relay, Xyzzy and TCP/IP.
> > From the original author of the Pascal version of Relay: > > > Between VT moving away from VM/XA as part of Y2K and the demise of > > Bitnet, it's been a long time since I've been sure I knew
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Timothy Stark
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Differences between S/380 and XA mode?
Folks, I googled some information and now learned that there are 380 versions of VM, VSE and MVS. I now have some questions for you. What is any differences between S/380 and XA mode? Also I learned
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Timothy Stark
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