On Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 08:00 PM, Gregg Levine wrote:
Hello!
Dave W is correct, despite the Weeping Angel in his garden, I once
asked an IBMer (now retired!) about releasing the rest of the VM/370
content to the community since the base is out in the open. Suffice to
say he was hostile to it. Yesterday I raised the point to a different
group of IBMers regarding releasing the entire VM/370 kits to a single
individual who's responsible for managing it, that individual would
be responsible for everything. Next they would convince or confuse IBM
Legal to create a sort-of Hobbyist License to manage it, and the MVS
code along with it, (Mind I'm still not a full supporter of MVS.) The
big problem is that they are aware of the sudden dearth of systems
managers for current IBM zVM systems because the schools are not
really interested in it.
I really do not know what they will do next concerning the whole idea next.
You wonder why they are that way - they could make a few bucks on selling hobbyist licenses. Who would really want to pay money for the old mainframe software unless they were "software archeologists"?
Anyways, hope the HIM code will be out soon.? I assume there are still difficulties getting it working with the new way that Hercules 4.x does TCP/IP.
