Well I finally made my “Using Virtual Tapes to transfer data to MVS on Hercules” public. I think it may be of use. Moshix did cover Virtual Tapes at one point, but all his data transfer videos seemed to focus on 80 column data, specifically PDS members. I think mine is different enough to add …
Category Archives: Computer
Install latest Manjaro
Basically I had to because of the stupid Giant electron update, that I couldn’t do. Otherwise my system would always say it needs to be updated. This ISO was smaller than the last one, but didn’t include an office suite. Hot corners still don’t work!
OBS video size shrinking trick
Don’t know what made me try this but I did and the reduction in file size was substantial. It involves using ffmpeg to simply copy the input file to a new output. For example a mp4 that was around 15min that was 296.5Mb reduced to 79.1Mb by simply typing ffmpeg -i obs.mp4 out.mp4.
Mic clip suprise
Made a few YouTube vids lately, using OBS Studio and Kdenlive. Holding the mic and talking and typing for me is like walking and chewing gum at the same time. So I had a decent mike…I didn’t buy. I have this mike stand…I didn’t buy. It would really be handy if I could use that …
Tk4- forgotten updates
Apparently I added WRK141.141, WRK142.142 and four cbt volumes to tk4- (MVS) and didn’t document it. From their FAQ “The CBT tape is a collection of freeware almost all open-source distribution for the IBM mainframe MVS and OS/390 operating system environment.”
Manjaro electron update
Tried this again! After running and downloading for over an hour, had to cancel because Manjaro complained that root only had ~120MB left. And it had already downloaded 7GB, before I finally canceled it. To top it off, I have no idea how much more it had to go…no progress bar. Also as I said …
Making YouTube videos
Made YouTube videos about Hercules MVS mainframe coding locally. Made them for myself posted privately, but may make them Public. Have another in mind. Using virtual tapes to load large amounts of data into MVS. Both of these topics were personally important to me! I’ll do Mainframe emulation for a while then stop long enough …
Interesting
Article comparing ISPF with *nix vi. It also points to a YouTube video.
Nervous update
Manjaro said it had one update…Electron! So I started it, not paying that much attention to it. Did notice a download phase. Then noticed it was in a build phase. Seemed like it should have been done in maybe 5 minutes. …still buildinglooked at my network monitor and something was downloading something?Maybe some tab in …
maketape/tapedump updates
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.