[LUNI] I finally got mainframe linux up #$

[Carey Tyler Schug]

I have offered to possibly present it at NWCLUG, Windy City NASPA (both 
Rolling meadows) or CAVMEN (Lincolnshire).  I will try to remember to 
make the announcement here if my offer is accepted.  I did have 
mainframe Linux running at the Feb NWCLUG.

The Hercules website is http://www.conmicro.cx/hercules/ and there links 
there to software and how-to's.

Open office crashed and I clicked the wrong button on recovery, so I 
lost my installation notes.  I will want to go thought the whole thing 
again before I present it, hopefully skipping the blind alleys as I do 
it again.

I'm sure its partly my inexperience with Linux, but there were more 
problems than I had anticipated from the presumed ready-to-go systems.  
The main glitches were determining the requires pre-req software, 
especially for 3270 emulation (which isn't needed for mainframe Linux)

I *THINK* the "ready-to-go" systems are more oriented towards running 
under windows, so that may be an option for some.

PS: answers and more for those at the February NWCLUG (from published 
info on web):

I could not find MUSIC or the other non-IBM OS asked about.  The TSS 
images have serious problems.  There are install tape images for DOS/360 
(and TOS/360) but no disk images.  There are listed tapes for OS/MFT and 
OS/MVT including JES3.  There is an installed image for OS/MVT with ASP 
and HASP.

It does emulate 2305s and 2311s.  It does not emulate 2520 or 2540 card 
punches or 2400 series tape drives nor the multi function card machine.  
It does not support 1404 or 3800 printers.  It supports CTCs and 3088s, 
also 3172s and other lan connection devices.  It will support mainframe 
multiprocessors but you must recompile Hercules for more than 2.  It 
supports vector and I saw a reference to supporting crypto, although 
that is not on the main Hercules page.  I would guess the crypto may be 
for herc to herc use only, i.e. the same programming interface but 
different encryption than the real hardware.


Samir Faci wrote:
> You know.. I actually wouldn't mind seeing some how to on that.. or docs.
>
> and yes.. definitely masochist ...but so is running linux half the
> time... (or is that vista.. i forget)
>
> On 2/7/07, Kenneth P. Stox <ken at stox.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 22:02 -0600, Carey Tyler Schug wrote:
>> > I finally got the Hercules emulator working, and under it I have run
>> > Mainframe 31 bit Linux, along with the old "free" versions of MVS 3.8
>> > and VM R6.
>>
>> Masochism at its best! Just add punch cards, and you're all set. ;->
>>
>> ABEND
>>
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