Off topic I know, but running MTS under Hercules and getting a week of uptime probably pretty much matches the real mainframe experience. At UBC the maximum uptime was something like 7 days when the system shutdown to clients ?for a total (weekly) file save followed by an IPL.?
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On Apr 10, 2023, at 3:05 PM, John Palmer <
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MTS requires special code because of how it interfaced with the internet. It used specialized hardware. ?Work is being done to add support into Hercules for this hardware. Other systems can already use networking with Hercules, MTS cannot yet do this.
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The work is being done as part of the release of the last MTS version that was in use before U of M shut it down. This is being called ‘d7.0’.?
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The issue I had with Hercules 4.5 is that MTS would crash anywhere from 2 minutes to a week after IPL. It may be my combination of OS (Linux), gcc compiler, etc.
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My question was to determine if the networking changes were already checked in to the current (4.6?) version of Hercules.? If so, I was going to download that onto a CentOS 9 vm to see if it had the crash problem.?
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... AFAIK, SDL 4.5 has all the necessary socket support.? FTP runs on MVS3.8j for example.?
