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: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2210303.pdf
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2278324.pdf
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/a2278325.pdf
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/p
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Dennis Boone
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#6482
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Fish wrote:
And by link, I want to be clear that I'm referring a link to the ARCHIVE.ORG url, *not* a link to your own downloaded copy on your own or someone else's web site! I'm sure IBM would scream
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Fish Fish
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#6481
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Mark A. Stevens wrote:
Maybe someone could write a program that could download each one, extract the manual name and number, and compile a list manual names and numbers with a link pointing to the
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Fish Fish
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#6480
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
You might want to look at the boo2pdf program by Kevin Bowling at https://github.com/kev009/boo2pdf.
I tried to get it working in my Linux machine but for now it failed. Probably because I have a
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Berry van Sleeuwen
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#6479
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Maybe both? This is a copy from Wayback of IBM PDFs, with their confusing filenames.
https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/*
... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6478
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
As a somewhat frustrated follow-up, I've discovered that my screen reader does not handle the IBM Softcopy utility at all, at least not without use of OCR, which is the very problem I was trying to
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Zachary Kline
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#6477
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
Hi René and all,
Thanks for the quick and helpful responses. I am, as it happens, without sight of any kind, hence why I prefer documents in original electronic format whenever possible to spare me
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Zachary Kline
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#6476
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
I've stumbled on this collection, in BookManager format.
http://villiers.info/P390/$P390_BOO/_IBM_books.htm
... Mark S.
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6475
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
Before IBM took down a very handy publication website, I was able to get some of VM/ESA 2.4 documentation.? I use SoftCopy Reader to access my manuals and the folder for VM/ESA 2.4 pubs is about
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Jim Snellen
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#6474
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
I am not sure what you mean here, no previous knowledge or no sight? :-/
Anyway, if it is the first, I would recommend reading this:
https://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247316.html
It
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René Ferland
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#6473
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
I think all the ESA documents have been removed.. Following the link from the product announcement page gives a 404
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Dave Wade
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#6472
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Re: Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
There are some manuals at https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/ <https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/*> but to reach them you need to know the exact filename
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Berry van Sleeuwen
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#6471
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Current source for VM/ESA Manuals?
Hi All,
I guess this question probably comes up a lot, but here we go again. :)
I wondered if anyone had a good source for VM/ESA era manuals they could point me to? I've looked on Bitsavers but
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Zachary Kline
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#6470
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Re: IBM Documentation Hidden At IBM
Maybe Bitsavers is a better place than Wayback Machine?
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VM/370 CE V1R1.2, Hercules on macOS
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Stefan A. Haubenthal
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#6469
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Re: Which Hercules and which host?
All these responses are useful. Thanks! As I don't have any need for "z" operating systems, nor licenses, I'll probably go Aethra. Speed isn't really an issue for me, but I always lean toward lighter
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BlameTroi
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#6468
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Re: IPCS? The Unwanted/Unneeded Application
[email protected]> wrote:
The best dump tool I've ever seen, bar none, was Kolinar's KPROBE, and I
spent 20 years working on applications for VM, 12 of them developing and
supporting VMBACKUP and
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Ross Patterson
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#6467
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Re: IPCS? The Unwanted/Unneeded Application
Yes, I did use IPCS when I was working on these systems.
I don't WORK on them anymore. I might use IPCS if I start PLAYING with these systems again.
I think Amdahl had its own dump analysis program
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Thomas Kern
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#6466
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IPCS? The Unwanted/Unneeded Application
Hi folks!
If you don't know what it stands for, you are only an acronym behind me:? Interactive Problem Control System.
Did anyone ever use IPCS?
Does anyone still use IPCS?
Do we need IPCS?
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Mark A. Stevens
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#6465
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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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