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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XNET 1.5.0 on VM/370 CE 1.1.2
Having rebuilt most of my VM/370 KVMs, I just tackled the installation of XNET 1.5.0.
Neat! Wow! Wonderful!
Bob, you did a wonderful job. I've got my two original systems running and connected. Now
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
[email protected]> wrote:
The University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, was a very influential
mainframe shop. Among other contributions to the community, the VMers
there curated and
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Ross Patterson
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Storing them on vm370.org will allow others not on this list, who may check that site, to see there is activity. I am aware of at least two Discord channels that do have members reference, refer to,
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: VMARC for WIndows
Bob,
You can also find versions of wxWidgets for Linux, here:
https://www.wxwidgets.org/
in case you want to "port" VMAGui to your favorite Linux distro.? :-)
Mark
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Mark Waterbury
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Re: VMARC for WIndows
Bob,
I think you want to go to the official site for the VMAGui tool for Windows and MacOS:
https://www.homerow.net/zvm/vma/
There you can find executable code and the source code.
Hope that
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Mark Waterbury
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VMARC for WIndows
What's a good source for the Windows binary file of the vma.exe? (VMARC extractor for WIndows or Ubuntu Linux)?
I found some source files, but I don't have a full Windows dev environment except for
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Robert Rodriguez
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#6359
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Re: How to distribute Rexx helpfiles?
wrote:
So I did that, and the second and third bREXX betas have a BRXHELP VMARC
file embedded inside the BREXXSRC VMARC file, and the bREXX installation
tool (NEWBREXX EXEC) will unpack that onto the
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Ross Patterson
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#6358
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
<williamedenton@...> wrote:
Yup, that ship sailed when someone else created HRC452DK, which added the
";BASEnn" syntax.
Ross
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Ross Patterson
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Re: CP PER and DISPLAY cmd interaction
[email protected]> wrote:
I've uploaded it to the files area as HRC034DK.VMARC
</g/h390-vm/files/hrc034dk.vmarc>. Syntax is easy: add
the new "SEP <char>" option to the PER
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Ross Patterson
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#6356
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Mike,
I think the best help you can do is to test the new releases as they appear. Its good to have input from some one who is a little distant, and who reads the documents with a different
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Dave Wade
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Dave, I would be in favor of copying the files to vm370.org. I would also like to help in the vm370 environment in any capacity. Just not sure how that would be done.
Best Regards,
Mike
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Mike Rankin
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Hi Ross,
Thank you for this. I see you have put them in the files section, which I think is fine, not sure about space., but will check later.
Might be a good idea for me to store them on vm370.org as
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Dave Wade
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#6353
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File Notifications
#file-notice
The following items have been added to the Files area of the [email protected] group.
* /hrc432ds.vmarc ( /g/h390-vm/files/hrc432ds.vmarc )
*By:* Ross Patterson
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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File /hrc120ds.vmarc uploaded
#file-notice
The following items have been added to the Files area of the [email protected] group.
* /hrc120ds.vmarc ( /g/h390-vm/files/hrc120ds.vmarc )
*By:* Ross Patterson
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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File /hrc080dk.vmarc uploaded
#file-notice
The following items have been added to the Files area of the [email protected] group.
* /hrc080dk.vmarc ( /g/h390-vm/files/hrc080dk.vmarc )
*By:* Ross Patterson
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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Re: How to contribute some fixes?
Ross,
I'd suggest just placing your fixes in the Files section of this group.? Not everyone uses VM/CE and some of us are still on Sixpack 1.2 and I know at least one who is using the VMDIST 5-pack
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Bob Polmanter
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How to contribute some fixes?
As I've noted before, I've got a small number of fixes to contribute to the
community, independent of the work I've been doing on bREXX. I've signed
out update numbers for them for CP and CMS on the
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Ross Patterson
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#6348
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Third and final beta of bREXX 1.1.0 now available
The third beta release of bREXX v1.1.0 for CMS on VM/370 is now available
at
https://github.com/RossPatterson/CMS-370-BREXX/releases/download/v1.1.0-beta-03/BREXX.zip.
I have been testing this update
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Ross Patterson
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Alejandro,
On Melinda Varian's web page you can also find "ZORK VMARC".
VM/CE does support VMARC.? So, you can use VMARC UNPK to "unpack" the files in the VMARC archive file,
You only need to
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Mark Waterbury
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#6346
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
back in 1983 when I worked in the IBM UK Education Centre we played ZORK under CMS. It was a FORTRAN program. As a result of the fun we had I wrote a book for Addison-Wesley on programming Adventure
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Dave Mitchell
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