While googling “Hercules AWS ” I see that Jay Mosley made some updates in July 2020 that I was unaware of. Changes seems mostly concerning using gnuCobol to provide a fullscreen interface…interesting.
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Hercules virtual tape – large datasets
These are timings for a large one million customer records, dataset. It follows the same process below. It just goes to show my reasoning why I like this method to move large datasets to the virtual mainframe. Use maketape to create the virtual tape file! bill@bill-MS-7B79:~/Mystuff/Mainframe/MVS/JCL/TAPEDASD$ time ./maketape INPUT: customer-million.txt VOLSER: VOL001 DATASET: CUSTOMER.FILE OUTPUT: …
Move programs to github
Move updated parsejob (fix counts and don’t die if input missing) and toherc (don’t restrict tapes to tape directory) into github.
Rebuild Pi-hole
So maybe a week ago pi-hole stopped working. That’s not great reliability. A month of use before failure. At that time, I tried to SSH into it and it seemed sluggish to the point of being unusable. I didn’t know if it was hardware (did the pi overheat and components were failing?) or software. So …
Hercules virtual tape review
Previously, I talked about Hercules virtual tapes without being specific. I find this useful for getting large amounts of data to a MVS dataset. So here I find myself reviewing/documenting the procedures…again! These below examples are using test data with a fixed length of 165 characters! Getting the data It seems I created some fixed …
Linux Mint auto updates
I don’t like what I’ve been reading. Seems Mint is thinking of playing Big Brother and forcing updates on users. I keep my system updated but it’s my idea!
USB Mic issue – part 2
I seems that my Mint USB mic issue is with audacity! The mic works fine with OBS studio on Mint. As I said before it also works fine with audacity on Manjaro too!
I’m on a roll with problems (3270)
So I started MVS in hercules mainframe emulator on Manjaro. Went to start a x3270 terminal. It did not exist…no problem I’ll just install it. So I installed it. But it said it required a restart. Hardly anything requires a restart. Ok I need to try and shutdown MVS manually. Found manual said something like …
USB Mic issue
So the USB mic issue that I had on Linux Mint apparently is not an issue on Manjaro. I’m pretty sure I used it on Mint with no problems before. The problem is if I record a 10sec clip in audacity, it plays back in about as nano second. I deleted audacities setting folder with …
Large Manjaro update/So much to do
Over a GB with 227 updates. Looking at “uname -a” output doesn’t seem to be using a new kernal. Or is it? To do… Find out why. See above. Get Hugo to use relative addressing so I can move hugo static site to subfolder. See if I can use “Samson Q2U Recording and Podcasting Mic” …