In this tutorial we are going to install vm370 into the hercules emulator. Hercules is osi certified open source software licensed under the terms of the q public licence. Get project updates, sponsored content from our select partners, and more. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe system370 and esa390 architectures, in addition to the new 64bit zarchitecture.
Installing vm370 on hercules computer history wiki. It was maintained by robert ohara and is now almost ten years old. Hercules is osi certified open source software licensed under the terms of the q public licence hercules was created by roger bowler. Development started in 1999 by roger bowler, a mainframe systems programmer. This link downloads a zip archive of jcl and instructions from the yahoo group. It has a more uptodate gcc with a choice of runtime libraries and extra editor modifications to allow editing multiple files.
Some of the packages are very old and may even work in vm370 running under the hercules system370. Hercules runs under linux, windows, solaris, freebsd, and mac os x. You are able to use you own config and disk with this docker container by using the following. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe system370 and esa390 architectures, in addition to the latest 64bit zarchitecture. It was created for hw group internal use only, but today its includes many functions in one utility and its freeware. This is a great hobby for retirees that had hands on. They may not work in a current release of vm or vse. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe.
Hercules setup utility is useful serial port terminal rs485 or rs232 terminal, udpip terminal and tcpip client server terminal. This is a complete, pregenerated, readytorun vm370 system, with. The hercules system370, esa390, and zarchitecture emulator. Next run your 3270 terminal program, and attach to the localhost port 3270. Hercules is a software implementation of the system370, esa390 and zarchitecture mainframe.
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