Freshly Genned MVS/CommunityEdition - M233

[@misterspock1]

It's a beautiful thing to see this come together! Round of applause for all the people who had a hand in this!

[@moshixmainframechannel]

True

[@frankniethardt1813]

As you pointed out I think at least reading through Jay Moseley's sysgen process gives you a deeper understanding what MVS is about and how you do things with it. Unlike Jay Moseley's configuration the MVS/CE has RAKF activated. I'm still new to the game, started with a TK5, ran through the hassle of following Jay Moseley and installed MVS/CE. Still trying to figure out what way to follow and what to do with it apart from being happy about the fact that I have an IBM Mainframe running on a Fujitsu Futro ;)

[@moshixmainframechannel]

MVS is a lot like Linux: it’s an environment meant to develop code and it makes it natural and fun to do so.

[@frankniethardt1813]

As I was in university - around 2005 - I had a course on OS/390 and z/OS where we played with TSO, CICS and other things on an actual mainframe... This brings back some memories..

[@moshixmainframechannel]

@frankniethardt1813 it’s only 20 years ago. Sounds like yesterday you me

[@Stosszahlansatz]

This distribution is essentially for Linux. It will run on Windows or macOS, but MVP will not work out of box.

[@jasonsdodd]

I was thinking about switching to this. This settles it. I'll make sure I understand how to put my stuff on dasd I can copy from release to release and switch.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Makes sense

[@curiousmind4870]

I'm just begining my first steps in COBOL, I have MVS/CE and TK5 running, but due to my limited time to learn, which one is more similar to z/OS? (since I can't practice on a real mainframe and I need to be ready soon to apply to a job) I know they are both based on the same version, but JCLs are slightly different, the location of libraries,etc. Thank you!

[@moshixmainframechannel]

They are the same. Go with MVS/CE

[@RobAlderden]

Hi Sir. @22:52 you mention attaching all your stuff such as jobs, source on additional dasd. Can you give a link to the video where you explain how to do this?

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Adding a disk device to your MVS or z/OS system - M14 kzbin.info/www/bejne/i4mmkot8ZdNjfJY

[@jasonsdodd]

are these comments moderated? asking because i've tried to post comments here 3-4 times and after i post them they disappear. i took screenshot the last time so i know they were there.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

KZbin comments are broken. They sometimes re-appear after six months or a year. It’s a crappy platform

[@jasonsdodd]

I experimented by posting the comment line by line saving and editing after each line. I got the whole post in and it seemed to have stuck. and then I noticed it was missing the name of the script. I added that, ending in '.sh' and the comment disappeared. I made a new commented without the '.sh' and it is still there. :)

[@jasonsdodd]

I wonder if I'm missing a step. I've tried this again on a new machine and get similar results. Here's what I'm doing. 1 Download and untar the tarball . 3 Install hercules via the hercules-helper script. 4. cd to the MVSCE directory. 5 run start_mvs script from the MVSCE tarball. 6. Connect x3270 to the running mvs. 7 Hit enter. This is where it hangs and doesn't let me log in.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Thiese steps don’t actually use the Hercules you built with Hercules helper

[@jasonsdodd]

@@moshixmainframechannel Oh? What is it using? I ran the helper because when I didn't I got an error that hercules was not found.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

@jasonsdodd if you run the start up script it uses the Hercules that comes with TK4. Instead execute Hercules from its installed location by hercules-helper. Most likely /usr/local/bin

[@learntofencesco]

can you give the Hercules command to use the new cnf file please? At the point you ran Hercules it went off the bottom of the screen and I could not see what was typed to make it run. usually Hercules -f etc

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Hercules -f and then the name of the config file

[@learntofencesco]

thanks for the quick response!

[@jirehla-ab1671]

Does the terminal support unicode?

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Which terminal ?

[@jirehla-ab1671]

@@moshixmainframechannel 3270, if it does not support it, can i use any terminal for hercules that can support unicode?

[@moshixmainframechannel]

3270 only does EBCDIC subset. For Unicode on Hercules, simply run z/OS and ssh into that. Or run Linux on Hercules

[@jasonsdodd]

Looks like =0.3 is broken in this build. I've reported it.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Yes. Likely