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: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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Nothing really modern in the usual sense but I think about the ability to make fullscreen apps with it - don¡¯t know how modern that exactly is, and driven by the fact that getting IOS3270 to work
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Dave Wade wrote: I believe Harold Grovesteen explained this quite satisfactorily so I won't bother to. I'd just be repeating myself and him too. (And would only end up using WAY too many words to do
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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I quite like https://idcp.marist.edu/documents/33945/44724/Assembler.V2.alntext+V2.00.pdf/ad61965e-8485-65e1-f385-e5cd56f08c63?t=1551806232272 but doing it all in C would probably attract more
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Harold Grovesteen wrote: EXACTLY! Thank you, Harold! -- "Fish" (David B. Trout) Software Development Laboratories http://www.softdevlabs.com mail: fish@...
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Fish Fish
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Dave Wade wrote: [...] Correct. Due to the way VM works its magic, the PSWs that the real hardware (i.e. Hercules) uses (dispatches?) -- which is always what VM itself uses (dispatches, since its
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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What makes XEDIT *modern* ? VM/SP 3, when REXX and EXTRACT were added ? When (if?) VM/SP 5 at LCM+L ( tty.livingcomputers.org:24 ) is up: which *modern* features are missing ?
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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Martin said, I think we are overwhelmed with all the recent activity in this discussion group, and missed your note. I for one would rather see/use the code than look at a screen shot. The difference
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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Fully agreed. I need to acquire more knowledge to enter this area. In the 1990s I was a very experienced professional assembler programmer on the Motorola M680x0 family. Used on bare metal including
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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Hi Ren¨¦, What I want to see in a full screen editor for VMCE, is the ability to use REXX as a MACRO language for the editor so we can implement new editor commands in REXX and issue 'address XEDIT'
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Bob Bolch
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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I think it goes without saying that we would very much like to see Rexx compatibility for EE and a more XEDIT-like working - although it is not at all bad at the moment, just a bit different. Because
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Real hardware has no mechanism to report to an operator any interruption. REAL hardware only reports interruptions to the running program, an OS in this case. So, no, real hardware will not report
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Harold Grovesteen
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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There is a German idiom "Eulen nach Athen tragen ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulen_nach_Athen_tragen , see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coals_to_Newcastle )": KEDIT *is* my principal editor
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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Of course its desirable to have as much of XEDIT as possible under VM/370 CE, except of course it limits the memory available. I tend to use EE to work on CE. It would also be nice to see betas etc.
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Dave Wade
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Re: It has been awhile and I forget how to get past a power loss
You are correct in your order. CKPT, FORCE, and only then COLD [email protected]> wrote:
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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Hello, I would love to see XEDIT on VM/CE. I know you have a lot invested in EE, but have you thought about looking at the product KEDIT? While written for Windows 32 bit and most likely in C or C++,
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Bertram Moshier
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Remember, we are under VM so thats probably not what MVS thinks is the PSW Again that is what VM has loaded into the PSW. MVS may believe that DAT is off and he is in supe
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Dave Wade
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
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Dave Wade
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
Let me check I have this right¡ When running under VM we will always be in ECMODE, DAT ON, and in real problem state. The ¡°virtual PSW¡± which contains what MVS believes is happening is
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Dave Wade
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Re: Do I have a looping issue?
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Dave Wade
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Re: #VMCE #rexx EE goes XEDIT - compiling a wish list
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No feedback ... are editors much less significant in the (emulated) mainframe community now since most people are doing it the Zowe way ?
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Martin Scheffler
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