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: What major change would justify bumping VM/CE to V2?
Are you speaking to the 1K, 2K, 4K, blocksizes for minidisks?
I believe this is being worked on by Martin S. and he is having some success. Still lots to do.
The WATERLOO tapes, I have to look to
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Mark A. Stevens
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Re: bREXX Release 1.1.0 now available
Thank you very much for your work on these challenges. Now if I can squeeze some time from somewhere to install and test.
... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6383
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Re: bREXX Release 1.1.0 now available
[email protected]> wrote:
Nope :-) It needs the GCC 1.0.1 library, same as bTEXX 1.0.1 did. That's
already present on VM/CE 1.1.1 and 1.1.2. And if you take the "replace the
GCCBRX DASD"
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Ross Patterson
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#6382
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Re: bREXX Release 1.1.0 now available
Ross,
Thanks for that. Does this need any fixes to the GCC libraries?
Dave
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Dave Wade
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#6381
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bREXX Release 1.1.0 now available
bREXX Release 1.1.0 for CMS on VM/370 is now available at
https://github.com/RossPatterson/CMS-370-BREXX/releases/tag/v1.1.0. There
are no new known bugs and no changes to code since the last beta.
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Ross Patterson
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Alejandro,
Thanks for unearthing the last word in VM games ;-)
From
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6379
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
The * should mean that the first file is found. I do not know the selection logic if the specs for the file, the " (RECFM?VBS?BLKSIZE??800?LRECL?9608 " portion, does not match the actual
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Anthony Smith
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#6378
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Got it to work.
The issue was on the ZORK EXEC file.
I don't know why, but as soon as I replaced asterisk filemodes there (DISK FILEDEFs) and updated to the actual filemode of my games minidisk, zork
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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#6377
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Re: XNET 1.5.0 on VM/370 CE 1.1.2
Installed the MODULE on all three systems and it is working well, This is from
smsg xnet d tasks
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 14:32:48
XNET025 Task Status 14:32:48
TaskID ?Type Name ? ?Status
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6376
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Re: Possible bug in EE & friends
Please continue discussion here: "EE goes XEDIT - testing new features" /g/h390-vm/topic/108730896#msg6374
Martin
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Martin Scheffler
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#6375
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Re: EE goes XEDIT - testing new features
#rexx
#VMCE
I am testing a new bug fix to make EE handle large screen sizes without crashing. I have increased some old hard coded limits from 64 to 256. Further research has to be done if this limit could be set
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Martin Scheffler
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#6374
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
Hi again guys... happy 2025!
Nice to have found those aws tapes with games on teh filesection :-) it's going to be fun giving them a try if I manage to make them to work!
Regarding the zork tape, I
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Alejandro olivan Alvarez
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#6373
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Re: EE goes XEDIT - testing new features
#rexx
#VMCE
Progress with EE will be slow due to my health situation. I have returned from hospital even worse, because I did not receive the treatment that I had desired. I still do NOT have access to ADHD
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Martin Scheffler
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Re: XNET 1.5.0 on VM/370 CE 1.1.2
Hi Mark,
I've uploaded XNET 1.5.1 to the files section, which corrects the issue you identified.? All you need is to replace the MODULE file from the tape image for each XNET machine that you have,
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Bob Polmanter
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Re: ZORK on VM/370 CE ... POSSIBLE?
There is an aws tape with ZORK in the files section.
Dave
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Dave Wade
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#6370
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Re: Possible bug in EE & friends
EE & friends are part of MECAFF, of which the binaries and sources were released to the public domain: https://github.com/devhawala/mecaff
Have you take a look?
Cheers,
René FERLAND, Montréal
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René Ferland
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#6369
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Possible bug in EE & friends
I seem to recall someone saying that the EE editor (& FS* tools) could support arbitrary size 327x displays. So, I thought I would give it a try...
I used the same WC3270 config I use with my VM/ESA
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William Denton
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#6368
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Re: XNET 1.5.0 on VM/370 CE 1.1.2
Mark,
Yep, that's a bug.?? I just confirmed it here.? There is some kind of length calculation issue in the code dealing with the command image received.?? For now, you can use a workaround.?
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Bob Polmanter
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#6367
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Re: XNET 1.5.0 on VM/370 CE 1.1.2
Bob,
I tried the following from the OPERATOR console. Am I supposed to be able to INACT and ACT a channel?
15:17:22 SMSG XNET D NODES
XNET032 Node Status 15:17:22
Netid ? Name ? ? ?Status
1 ?
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6366
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What major change would justify bumping VM/CE to V2?
Got to thinking the other day about what sort of change to Community Edition would justify jumping to Version 2.1.0. Here are some things that occurred to me:
* Enhanced CMS File System ala VM/SP
*
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William Denton
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#6365
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