Category Archives: MVS3.8J

Was looking for suggestions for a resolution for an issue I had with some S/370 assembler code using the font of all knowledge, good old google. The search results threw up a link to some code on my own personal … Continue reading →

Fighting my way through a 600 line block of code at the moment. It is S0C4 abending for no meaningfull or sensible reason. Insert a WTO 100s of lines above where it abends and it runs, remove the WTO line … Continue reading →

MVS3.8J/Turnkey3 news. The RAKF security product that three of the enthusiasts have been working on that until now had only been available by joining the yahoo hercules-390 usergroup (you had to join yahoo, and who needs yet another email address) … Continue reading →

I had a need to do this, and this is my solution for running a “live” hercules system running turnkey3 from either a USB stick or a DVD image. The only difference between the two is that if the .bat … Continue reading →

While everybody is comfortable issuing a WTOR and waiting for a reply I had a need to issue a WTOR that would cancel itself if no respose was recieved within a certain time. The timer stuff was easy, but it … Continue reading →

Spent the morning adding an extra tweak to my tape automation tool for mvs3.8j. As you all know by know, it there were no scratch tapes left in the pool the a WTOR is posted on the consoles asking the … Continue reading →

Now a ‘playpen’ mvs3.8j system is available to the public on my website I wanted to automate recovery from any damage a user could cause (even though they don’t have console access). That necessitated a change to my task monitoring … Continue reading →

Well I needed to make a modification to my MMPF utilty over the last few days, finished it off yesterday and finished testing it today. Works a treat. For first time readers, while I enjoy using MVS3.8J under hercules at … Continue reading →

Rates a post simply because it took me so long to figure out how to do it. But this post is for hercules users running MVS3.8J, it won’t make any sense to the rest of you. The online help in … Continue reading →

Ok, I’ve been in computers too long. As soon as I got MVS3.8J running in hercules I thought about backups. Of course I was running it under Linux so had the server backups to fall back to, but I wanted … Continue reading →