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: Which Hercules and which host?
100% agree. I always use Debian for servers and have switched to tmux
instead of screen, but yes, this is how I run all of my Hercules and
simh instances -- Debian VM on my VM server with tmux
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Matthew Wilson
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#6464
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Re: Which Hercules and which host?
Dave Wade wrote:
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I understand perfectly. In fact, this so called "bloatware" issue that SDL 4.x Hyperion currently suffers from with respect to older legacy operating systems (which I honestly
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Fish Fish
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#6463
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Re: Which Hercules and which host?
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Dave Wade
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#6462
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Re: Which Hercules and which host?
Dave Wade wrote:
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While it's true that the older 3.x releases of Hercules are certainly faster than the SDL 4.x Hyperion releases, they are also buggier, failing to pass more than one of SDL
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Fish Fish
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#6461
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Re: Which Hercules and which host?
I am running 6 old OS'ses on a Raspberry Pi 5 with 8G - including Multics. All over Tmux and ssh tunnels. Working great.
There is no problem running on a Mac either, Hercules Helper (git clone
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rvjansen@xs4all.nl
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#6460
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Re: RSCS Assistant
Errors were found, so I will be posting an updated set of files soon.
Would it be a good idea to add sequence numbers to the COPY datasets?
I created HELP for the two EXECs.
Part of my idea is to
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6459
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Re: Which Hercules and which host?
I don't believe for any of the 370 based OSs such as VM/370 R6 which is the base for VM/CE there is any difference. In fact at the risk of irking Jay and Fish I would say that on a PI one of the 3.X
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Dave Wade
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#6458
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Re: Which Hercules and which host?
My preference for running something like Hercules or SIMH is a Virtual Machine running on an older x86 box with Linux installed. Log in, start up ’screen’ and then start up the emulator. I’ve
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Zane Healy
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#6457
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Which Hercules and which host?
This may be a dumb question, but I couldn't find anything helpful after searching here in groups and generally on the web.
I'm wanting to rebuild my first serious shop in my home: VM hosting DOS/VS.
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BlameTroi
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#6456
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RSCS Assistant
It's taken me a while to get this done, but I have created two EXECs. One for the access order for RSCS, RSCS1, or RSCSTST userids, and a second one to assemble the code, with or without Peter's
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6455
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Added Folder /RSCS_Assistant
#file-notice
Mark A. Stevens <marXtevens@...> added folder */RSCS_Assistant*
*Description:*
A couple of EXECs to set up the access order and build RSCS with or without Peter Coghlan's mods. Two formats
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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#6454
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File /hrc422ds.vmarc uploaded
#file-notice
The following items have been added to the Files area of the h390-vm@groups.io group.
* /hrc422ds.vmarc ( /g/h390-vm/files/hrc422ds.vmarc )
*By:* Ross Patterson
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Group Notification <noreply@...>
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#6453
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
That's got it. Thanks, Gonzalo.
De
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Dennis Boone
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#6452
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
I am so sorry, I don't know why link became broken.
Here, I will try the second time https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/*
Best wishes,
Andre
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Andre
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#6451
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
replace the * (asterisk or star symbol) before publibz with a forward slash
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msu.edu@groups.io> wrote:
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Gonzalo Martin Barrio
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#6450
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Is the above mangled from what you sent? IA gives me a "No URL has been
captured for this URL prefix" error. (I live behind a $%^*&
"protection" system, i.e. URL destroyer, sigh.)
De
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Dennis Boone
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#6449
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Hello,
Here is this folder from web archive. It contains 1754 pdf files. You can download all of them if you like.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/*
Best
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Andre
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#6448
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
I googled 1fc5g101 and got this URL as first hit. So I guess there are ways to find them anyway. Looking for the Erep Users guide gives the URL as well, though that wil give ifc5g103.
Funny part is
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Berry van Sleeuwen
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#6447
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IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Did this by accident, and pulled up an old URL for
https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/ifc5g101.pdf
and it actually pulled the manual into my web browser. So if you have URLs in your history,
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6446
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Re: Recursive VM installation?
As mentioned, technically there's no limit. But in practice there is. It all has to do with the overhead you get when running in virtual environments and especially when CPU instructions need to be
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Berry van Sleeuwen
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#6445
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