tk4- with ISPF and REXX mod

Saw this on Moshix Mainframe Channel. He has a prebuilt tk4- with the mod. However I’ve added some volumes so I needed to find out what they were. So I did a before and after directory list. Then I sorted it. Finally I did a diff on the sorted lists and found I added WRK142.142 which I foolishly didn’t document in the tk4-.cnf. I have now. I also I added, a added.txt in the dasd directory. I also added 4 volumes to the cbt_dasd.cnf which I forgot about.

New z390 (v1.8.1)

Don’t know why I didn’t know this…but I didn’t. I think I read it but didn’t understand it. Maybe due to my lack of understanding Java.

If you download the zip file linked from the main github page (bottom of that page)…it’s ready to run, you don’t need to build it. You don’t even need to install Java. Click on the link, then scroll down to the zip file. After you unzip it, it won’t have a ./build file in it’s root directory, and it will be much smaller than the one you build!

I’ve been git cloning it then building it. Which in itself has been interesting to watch. The zip is less than 10MB. Unzipped…over 60MB.

I read somewhere…The distribution does not include Java source –  this is not required to use z390, and the package contains a compiled JAR file and scripts for use.

Install X-Plane 11

Files existed, on another drive, but steam didn’t know about them. With new faster download speeds I saved bandwidth not so sure about time. It expected HD to have enough space even though files were already there. So I needed to make space available that wasn’t needed. Then Steam went through lengthy discover, validate, verify phases. I didn’t time it but probably took over an hour.

Create desktop shortcut within Steam didn’t work. So right click on desktop…Create a new launcher here. Unlike creating a link this gives you the option of adding it to your menu.

Install Steam & Torchlight II

I only mention this as a test on my computer with the new parts. Before I added a surge protector and replaced the power supply I was booting/running off a USB drive. The last day running this way the text became unreadable on the screen. Looked scrambled and weird. So I was concerned. All I was doing was running a monitor and editing some text. So even though Torchlight II doesn’t tax my system, it is much more graphics intense than the simple things I was doing. It ran perfectly and I played it maybe 45min.

I’m not really in the frame of mind these days to sit and play games for hours. Anyway I think adding a surge protector and replacing the power supply was a good idea.I felt their was a possibility that I was getting bad power…maybe too much. Which led to the HDs failing. Still it was only the Seagate’s that failed and not the Western Digital. It was only a few dollars more and they are thicker…not as sleek as the Seagate’s. Perhaps the have better power protection too.

However I’ve only been running 6 days. The new Seagate ran about 2 weeks. So I’m not out of the woods necessarily.

Zowe connection error…solved

Not really a problem. I was redoing step 1 to get VScodium/zowe re-setup. But since I finished step 1 the files were gone. So I just needed to resume my progress at step or challenge #2.

Challenge 1 needed a step 5 like Challenge 2 had which was…IF YOU NEED TO START OVER.

Zowe connection problems

Tried multiple times.

z/OSMF REST API Error:
Rest API failure with HTTP(S) status 500
category: 6
rc:       8
reason:   513
message:  fopen() failed
details: 
  - EDC5041I An error was detected at the system level when opening a file. (errno2=0xC00A0022)
  - __amrc: __last_op=401 __code=0x00080098

 Error: z/OSMF REST API Error:
Rest API failure with HTTP(S) status 500
category: 6
rc:       8
reason:   513
message:  fopen() failed
details: 
  - EDC5041I An error was detected at the system level when opening a file. (errno2=0xC00A0022)
  - __amrc: __last_op=401 __code=0x00080098