Enzo,
Here’s a “quick highlights” tour of the IBM z114 with hobbyist intentions. This
information is thoroughly unofficial. Let’s first run through the highest
operating system releases that the IBM z114 supports:
z/OS 2.2 (current is 2.5)
z/VM 6.4 (current is 7.2)
IBM z/VSE 6.2 (current from
Shmuel Metz wrote:
>I'm editing the wikipedia [[Operating system]] article, and another editor
>has challenged the sentence "The logic manuals for their contemporary
>descendants,
>z/VM, z/VSE and z/VM, are not available to the general public."
Is that editor actually challenging you on
On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 21:57:38 -0400, Joe Monk wrote:
>"9. An operating system. I doubt that you can get a license for anything
> that will run on a box that old, and I don't know whether the free
>DOS/VSE, OS/VS or VM will run on it.."
>
>What about Linux/390?
>
There are easier ways to
"9. An operating system. I doubt that you can get a license for anything
that will run on a box that old, and I don't know whether the free
DOS/VSE, OS/VS or VM will run on it.."
What about Linux/390?
Joe
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 4:30 PM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> There are several
There are several issues that you will need to deal with in order to get a
running system.
1. The CEC itself; you will need to know how it is configured.
2. Licensed internal code for the CEC, which may or may not need an upgrade
3. HMC and SE
4. A DEASD subsystem
5. A tape drive and
I agree - compatibility with partners is key, which is why standardized
protocols are often chosen over proprietary. This may not be a consideration
for all.
As others kindly mentioned, Co:Z SFTP includes support for z/OS data sets,
codepage and line terminator conversions etc, etc. It also
I sent this privately to the OP at first, who liked it and suggested I re-send
it to the entire group as the thread is already OT and others might like the
story also.
My father, 86 now, became fascinated with computers in the late 50's early 60's
during his first career as a surveyor and map
I thought about what I said here and I wanted to make sure I did not come
across as deprecating the zD in general. It depends on what you want.
If I wanted to live and breathe assembler and machine code like I did when I
first discovered programming I would probably get a Hercules box.
If I
