There’s probably a better way. But I couldn’t quickly figure out how to end my KICKS environment. So for now I enter the MVS operator concole command C U=HERC01. Since its on Hercules the command is /C U=HERC01.
Category Archives: MVS
KICKS install complete on TK4-
I love a happy ending. After much frustration figuring out the ABEND problem on step #5, the install went good. The author should really be proud of this effort. Now to find the motivation to actually use it. This guys blog may be useful. I haven’t written CICS in at least 30 years. Also it …
Working on installing KICKS
KICKSis the MVS 3.8j CICS clone. I’ve been following the section “Turnkey MVS” from the supplied html instructions pretty well. They say “KICKS has been successfully installed on every MVS38J distribution I know of. I am not aware of any where it does not install and run. I use the MVS38J “MVS380” distribution to build …
Protected: M installs KICKS
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Fantastic greenbar program.
I watched a Moshix video where he’s offering a print service for hercules/MVS. He pointed to a video from the guy who wrote the greenbar program, who he partnered with for his print service. His YouTube channel is Mainframes & More with Matthew. This particular video is here. The program source is here. The only …
Pushed my 1st real Go program to GitHub
I wanted it on GitHub if for no other reason than to have a official date associated with my first real Go program. Also to add some activity and diversity to my github. There’s Cobol (mainframe & gnu), Basic, Python, Julia and now Go! Maybe I should add Lazarus/Pascal too. I could have also posted …
Rewrote a Python program in Go!
I rewrote the bulk of my Python parse the local Tk4- prt file in Go. I thought it would be easy but it took me all day. Then again I don’t exactly think in Go at this point. It won’t win any awards for Go style and technique. It needs to read the prt directory …
Hercules version
I guess I never noticed or looked. But Tk4- uses Hercules version 4. The main Hercules page says the current version is hercules-3.07-1. There is a version 4 manual available with an date of November 21, 2015. HHC01603I versionHHC01413I Hercules version 4.00HHC01414I (c) Copyright 1999-2012 by Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger, and othersHHC01415I Built on Jun …
Hercules/MVS (tk4-) on Tumbleweed
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.
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 …