TK4- runs fine on OpenSuse. The 3270 emulator (upper right) works as expected, menu items in English as opposed to the last time it even worked in Manjaro. With OpenSuse’s connection with mainframes I think 3270 emulation will be available for a while. Not to mention that OpenSuse itself actually offers Hercules.
Category Archives: Hercules
Assembler/REXX
Maybe with all the trouble Rexx is giving me I should go back to something easier like Assembler 🙂 Was the Rexx developer trying to look like he wasn’t using other peoples ideas? I mean really…EXECIO. Execute I/O I guess. I guess I’ll just let it process in the background, until I have a Eureka …
REXX
Just installed BREXX on TK4-/MVS. Now to read the manual! As they say…back in the day, I wrote many REXX execs in VM/CMS. Our shop used CA-Vollie, which was a VSE, ISPF like environment. I assume that, it’s been so long, I can only guess that, that’s what it was modeled after. It was a …
Assembler Disk to Print
Successfully fixed Assembler Disk to Print program I had typed in week or so ago. Was having problems with DCB macro. More specifically line continuation. Almost asked for help in the MVS forum. Finally solved by editing in VS Code and realize my source alignment was off by using the visual guides. It was a …
Making YouTube videos and learning
I mentioned before that one cool aspect of making a YouTube video to perhaps explain something to others is that I often find myself learning more on the topic than I knew. And once again after working on a video to explain how to create a MVS stand alone executable, I found myself digging in …
Customize 3270 screen
Here I wrote about changing the font size to something larger. I mentioned that the obvious choice of simply choosing a larger font wasn’t available to me. Well today it is! Perhaps because I also installed XFonts-x3270-misc and Fonts-3270, more likely the former. I simply chose Options>Font>20-point Font, and it worked. Then I chose File>Save …
Copy a PDS to another PDS
Thinking about this new YouTube Video and thought maybe it would be more useful to others to do it on a 3270 using ISPF. Which I assumed would be intutitive…but it wasn’t. See the copy utility below. It wasn’t clear to me how to copy looking at this panel,from the beginning, after I decided I …
My YouTube videos
I’m not a put myself out there kinda guy. Also since I tend to have a lot of sinus problems, my already pretty bad speaking voice is even worse by my sniffing and throat clearing. But I want to make another YouTube video. These are Hercules MVS (Tk4-) vids. I have no desire to be …
Manjaro – No 3270 emulator
Tried to install x3270 today…and it doesn’t exist in their repositories anymore! As a matter of fact, no 3270 emulator could be found. I thought Arch had everything? Maybe the writing was on the wall, the last time I installed it on Manjaro recently, it was in a foreign language! No love for mainframes? Just …
New Program to copy local files to a MVS PDS
Wrote new python program to copy local files to a MVS PDS by wraping IEBUPDTE JCL around the file.