Hercules emulates IBM S/370 and successor hardware. You have to install the operating system and software and data on top of it.
zCobol and zAsm emulates the hardware and operating system calls to run user mode software. http://z390.sourceforge.net/zcobol/index.html On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at 11:18 AM Bob Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: > > It's taken me until this morning, as this thread continues, to realize that > maybe I don't know what Hercules does after all. "Mainframe emulation", I'd > always heard, and supposed that meant that if I install Hercules on a PC > I'll be able to write REXX execs, write and submit JCL, create PDSs and GDGs > etc - in other words, that Hercules emulates MVS. But if it doesn't emulate > the mainframe operating system, what ~does~ it do? > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the > evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands > his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very > good; a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, > really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are > sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working > properly; while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand > the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good > people know about both good and evil; bad people do not know about either. > -C S Lewis, _Christian Behavior_ */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Friday, April 10, 2020 06:34 > > Don't confuse IBM's position on Hercules with IBM's position on running its > licensed software on a platform for which it is not licensed. > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of > scott Ford [[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, April 9, 2020 12:55 PM > > Until Hercules is sanctioned by IBM I wouldnt mentioned it. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
