Freshly Genned MVS/CommunityEdition - M233

[misterspock]

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

[frankniethardt]

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 ;)

[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.

[curiousmind]

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!

[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?

[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.

[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.

[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

[jasonsdodd]

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