At first I just downloaded the source bu some messages hinted the “git clone” method might be more straightforward. So, after installing openjdk-8-jdk, preceded to build the emulator. I saved the console install. It was lengthy (over 4300 lines) with many many tests. I saw many interesting messages. Such as (just a small sample)…
Verify zopcheck ran without errors
Verify Hello World WTO
Math tests messages
Such as Power of 2 from 1 to 126 ending as seen below
POWER OF 2** 124 = 21267647932558653966460912964485513216
POWER OF 2** 125 = 42535295865117307932921825928971026432
POWER OF 2** 126 = 85070591730234615865843651857942052864
21:27:12 POWERS EZ390 ENDED RC= 0 SEC= 0 MEM(MB)= 29 IO=313 INS=39796
Verify powers
VSE?
21:29:23 DEMOVSE1 LZ390 ENDED RC= 0 SEC= 0 MEM(MB)= 18 IO=66
21:29:24 DEMOVSE1 EZ390 START USING z390 v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9 ON J2SE 11.0.14 03/21/22
DEMOVSE1 HELLO WORLD
VSAM?
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/vsam1/demo/KSF1NAME.TF1 (deflated 67%)
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/vsam1/demo/ESV1.TF1 (deflated 96%)
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/vsam1/demo/ESF1.TF1 (deflated 95%)
Cobol?
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/zcobol/mac/IF.MAC (deflated 81%)
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/zcobol/mac/END_ADD.MAC (deflated 58%)
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/zcobol/mac/ZC_FILE_FIND.MAC (deflated 58%)
CICS?
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/cics/seq/SEQC0001.TXT (deflated 48%)
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/cics/seq/SEQI0017.TXT (deflated 20%)
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/cics/seq/SEQI0031.TXT (deflated 33%)
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/cics/seq/SEQI0013.TXT (stored 0%)
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/cics/seq/SEQC0020.TXT (deflated 72%)
It ended with no apparent errors. The last line was…
adding: z390_v1.8.0-4-gb44f1b9/LICENSE (deflated 62%)
bill@bill-MS-7B79:~/Downloads/Computers/Emulators/PC/z390$
I saw a whole lot of RC= 0