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.
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Re: DIRECTMAP issue
On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 02:08 AM, Bertram Moshier wrote:
When I run DISKMAP again for the USER DIRECT FILE (adding only one new mini-disk (3380 001 for 121), I'm getting the following error: I went back to the original e-mail. The actual "error" is an incorrect directory statement. PASCAL is invalid and should be MDISK.
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That said, the DISKMAP program doesn't process that properly, so there is an error in the detection and processing of an incorrect MDISK statement.
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I Hope That Helps.
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Re: File /epubs_pdfs.txt uploaded
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For your information , a catalogue of online computer manuals.
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Re: Oh FULIST, Where Have You Gone?
On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 09:20 AM, Mike Beer wrote:
I have a REXX driven prototype of RDRLIST based on The New EE and similar preparations for FILELIST, but my development has come to a full stop due to my health. I still do not have access to ADHD medication () and I am unable to write instructions how to use a bleeding edge release of The New EE.
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Re: Oh FULIST, Where Have You Gone?
On Sun, Apr 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM, Dave Wade wrote:
It seems to me that every VM Programmer had their own favourite tweaked version of these utilities.... What's the use and where's the fun in being a VM Programmer if you can't tweak the utilities to your liking ;-)
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I guess this means that FILELIST is closer to FULIST than FLIST is, and I'll stop looking/asking.
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Thanks folks! Another rabbit hole filled in.
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Re: File /IBMDocs.zip uploaded
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开云体育Hi Stefan,? Thanks for the hints. I used Rexx a lot (since VM/SP3 on a 4341 to the abandon of OS/2) [Then I switched to Java in order to avoid Windows even if my shop was using it) and since my retirement, I have played with lua (quite nice) so my rexx skills are quite rusted. My discovery of Hercules and the ability (mailny due to René
Ferland so kind help) of having a vm-esa working machine will
certainly help me in re-mastering language. Thanks again. have a nice day Jean-Pierre Le 03/04/2025 à 14:52, Stefan A.
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Re: File /IBMDocs.zip uploaded
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Hi Jean-Pierre,
Just two hints:
#!/usr/bin/env rexx
makes your script more portable
Do l = 1 while lines(csvFile) > 0
is a short form of your condition
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Re: File /IBMDocs.zip uploaded
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开云体育Alas, it was far from perfect. I've enhanced the results (finding
out all the titles I could and doing my best for finding was
hidden before 8 letters ones and then sort on the documents
numbers and remove the duplicate entry. And as I'm not fully
satisfied with the results, I thought that each of us would find a
need for some improvement.? Formerly, I used the lua language (easy to handle bunches of line and providing a good json interface) I thought that it would be more suitable to use a language we all share : REXX.? My lua program generated a csv file (easily modifed, handled with libreoddice-calc like programs [who said Excel ?]? or a plain text editor where the url, the document number and the title on every document are on one line separated by a tab (x09) character. The csv2html file is just a way to transform the contents of the csv file into a table displayed by any web browser. It is not a state of the art program just a tool cvs2html ibmdocs.csv cat.html will produce a cat.html file identical to the catalog.html which is in the zip file. Warning The output file is not erased by the program. you may end up with a double size catalog, the new version of it being at the end of the file. (it is also a way to have a table with the MVS entries, then one with VM, JES, JES2, JES3 ... Just keep the imbdocs.csv file in a safe place and do whatever you wish . Enjoy ! Tanks again for the deep knowledge you make available for everybody Jean-Pierre Cabanié ? Le 30/03/2025 à 05:21, Fish Fish via
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Re: File /IBMDocs.zip uploaded
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开云体育I'm really sorry, but a typo in the program missing.lua made some
entries undetected and hence the html output René Ferland uploaded
for me a few days ago was not 100% correct.? I'm currently working
on a new set of tools that will (I hope) not only be bug-free but
produce a better looking html output (a table instead of a list).
Please accept my most sincere apologies for this poor contribution. Jean-Pierre Cabanié (a bit ashamed) Le 30/03/2025 à 21:57, Andre via
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Mark A. Stevens
Stefan A. Haubenthal
Martin Scheffler
Jean-Pierre Cabanié