Re: Bash freeware for OMVS

2024-06-02 Thread Luc Martens (KBC)
Hi, IBM just GA'd IBM "Open Enterprise foundation for z/OS". You can find bash in there and it's for free. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

Re: Coupling Facility List structure versus CIC Data Table

2024-06-02 Thread Mark A. Brooks
I'm not understanding "XCF Notepad won't work as the data structure is a largish Cobol Copybook more than 64 bytes". The "notes' in a note pad can each be up to 1024 bytes. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: Bash freeware for OMVS

2024-06-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 20:19:45 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >If you’re running 3.1 I believe zsh is included and its becoming more of a >norm and compatible with most bash scripts. > Is it 100% compatible with POSIX shell, which I consider the Gold Standard? (Likewise dash.) >For bash itself, the

Re: Bash freeware for OMVS

2024-06-02 Thread Matt Hogstrom
If you’re running 3.1 I believe zsh is included and its becoming more of a norm and compatible with most bash scripts. For bash itself, the Open z/OS Tools has a good set of open tools ported to USS. https://github.com/ZOSOpenTools Mike Fulton from IBM who lead the z/OS Open Tools project look

Re: Upgrade by cutting a wire?

2024-06-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 2 Jun 2024 21:38:11 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >... >I've seen two different versions of the history posted here. One version >claimed that IBM intended on having paging from the beginning, but delayed it >due to engineering problems. The other version is that IBM decided after the

Re: Upgrade by cutting a wire?

2024-06-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
For me the dead giveaway was not thr labelling of the rollers but rather the 8 word associative memory. It did not make sense that IM designed that just to speed up block relocation, so it was clear that paging was on the horizon. I've seen two different versions of the history posted here. One

Re: Resetting a z14 HMC - forgot the admin password :-(

2024-06-02 Thread Doug Fuerst
I ran into this. IBM has a method, but you have to pay for a service call. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "Radoslaw Skorupka" <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 6/2/2024 15:42:27 PM Subject Re: Resetting a z14 HMC - forgot the a

Re: Upgrade by cutting a wire?

2024-06-02 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Yes-and-no, sort-of: On September 23, 1970, IBM announced the Model 145, a third model of the System/370, which was the first model to feature semiconductor main memory made from monolithic integrated circuits and was scheduled for delivery in the late summer of 1971. All subsequent S/370 mode

Re: Resetting a z14 HMC - forgot the admin password :-(

2024-06-02 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 30.05.2024 o 06:10, Laurence Chiu pisze: I have a couple of HMC's that were used for a Z14 mainframe. The mainframe has been reset and powered off. We forgot about the HMC's and disconnected it from the network. Now we realise we need to reset them before passing them into a new user, and

Re: Bash freeware for OMVS

2024-06-02 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
Or - you can get it from IBM via ShopZ for 2.5 or 3.1 - included with your existing S&S Read about it here https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/hyder-naqvi/2024/05/31/open-enterprise-foundation-for-zos?communityKey=64d1d1bd-66bc-4ecb-b9e8-0372b18c5bcb ---