As late as 1983, Humber College's mainframe shop in Toronto, was still using punch cards. In my first year, we entered COBOL "Hello World" programs on a ...
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Phil Smith III
akphs
May 1, 2010 3:11 pm
... As late as about 1985, University of Waterloo had a working card reader, because we had a professor who refused to move to that new-fangled online...
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BruceTSmith
May 1, 2010 7:47 pm
Yup, it was the 129. You guys are correct, as usual. :) Just another parity error in my 58 year old brain I guess. :) :) B.....
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jeffpc@...
sipek_jeff
May 1, 2010 11:50 pm
... I checked and I definitely have a -02 in print along with a replacement chapter in the form of a TNL. Jeff. -- The obvious mathematical breakthrough would...
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Bob
r_v_martin
May 2, 2010 12:00 pm
... Yes, I often used an 001 - I was a CE from 1963 to 1970 and in the first 2-3 years I seemed to live in very large punch rooms (50+ 026/029s). The...
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rhtatum
rhtatum@...
May 2, 2010 5:29 pm
And what about the 024 - I seem to recall it was like an o26, except it was without a print capability, and was entirely mechanacial, no electrical power...
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PeterH
peterh5322
May 2, 2010 6:35 pm
... SUPERZAP was a contributed program ... contributed by an IBM SE, much as HASP and ATS and CPS were contributed programs. It morphed into IMASPZAP....
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John Oakley
dauwk
May 2, 2010 6:53 pm
There is a good article in Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keypunch#IBM_024.2C_026 that provides chapter and verse on the IBM punch card range. I was an...
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aix_tech
May 2, 2010 10:07 pm
Hello World! I finally got a 64-bit Wintel server, running MS/Windows 7. I think the server is strong enough to handle zVM with excellent performance. But, I...
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Mike Stramba
mstramba2000
May 2, 2010 11:44 pm
Those permission denied usually mean that the files are set to read-only status. Use the cmd line 'attrib' command, or rmb / properties in an explorer window...
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Mike Schwab
maschwab
May 2, 2010 11:56 pm
You need to allow a large enough paging file (4GB), you don't actually have to have 3GB installed. ... -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest...
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"Fish" (Dav...
fish_hercules
May 3, 2010 12:58 am
Mike Schwab wrote: (re-sequencing for clarity) ... [...] ... In this case, yes. z/VM needs a 3GB ram disk. 32-bit Windows -- even WITH the "3GB" boot switch --...
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Mike Stramba
mstramba2000
May 3, 2010 1:35 am
Hi David, What about a 32 bit Linux machine? Can it handle the memory better? What does the MAINSIZE parameter need to be?, does it relate to the "3gig LPAR"...
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prabath1234
May 3, 2010 2:52 am
Hi, I have used below hercules configuration file in Ubuntu 9.10 64 without an issue. CPUSERIAL 00B1DA CPUMODEL 2096 LPARNAME HERCULES MAINSIZE 1024 ...
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Mike Stramba
mstramba2000
May 3, 2010 2:56 am
Nandika, What are the host machine specs? - 64bit or 32 bit? - memory size ? Mike...
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laddiehanus
May 3, 2010 3:09 am
... No ... Even with the 3 gig tricks on Linux 32 it wont run. The evaluation edition will go into a wait state of 9082 if it detects a mainsize less than...
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Nandika Kodituwakku
prabath1234
May 3, 2010 3:10 am
Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit and 4GB Regards, Nandika ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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paoloG
giacobbis
May 3, 2010 2:48 pm
... 1) You must define at least 3GB as MAINSIZE. How much RAM have you in your server? (z/VM evaluation creates a RAM disk of about 2GB, but requires 3GB (I...
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Mike Stramba
mstramba2000
May 3, 2010 8:03 pm
One last (for now ;) ) hardware question. What motherboard / processor ? And anybody else here who's running 64bit hardware, what motherboard / cpu's are you...
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Wayne Bickerdike
waynevb2002
May 3, 2010 10:57 pm
I have a HP DV5 laptop which is a Centrino processor. There is a lot of confusion about 64 Bit hardware and what constitutes 64 BIT. Suffice to say that my...
60953
aix_tech
May 4, 2010 2:16 am
Team, I tried changing the permissions before I posted my item and after. The results are the same. In terms of RAM, I have 12GB and 8TB of disk space and the...
60954
aix_tech
May 4, 2010 2:19 am
Please clarify. Do I need to make any change in terms of storage? As I said earlier, I have 12GB RAM and 8TB disk space under MS Win 7/64-bits....
60955
aix_tech
May 4, 2010 2:21 am
My MAINSIZE = 512. What's a good number here?...
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aix_tech
May 4, 2010 2:33 am
Nandika, Machine Spec: MS Windows 7 Ultimate - 64-bit 12GB RAM 8TB SATA disk storage Processor: Intel Core i7 CPU 975@... 3.49 GHz. Thank you...
60957
aix_tech
May 4, 2010 2:39 am
Hi Paul, I changed my MAINSIZE to 4096: MAINSIZE 4096 #Main storage size in megabytes But I am still getting the permission denied when I start hercules. I...
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Mike Stramba
mstramba2000
May 4, 2010 2:54 am
Hmm, a "shot in the dark", as I'm not running Windows 64bit, but are you logged in as / have administrator privileges ?...
60959
laddiehanus
May 4, 2010 3:02 am
Try one of the following 2 things 1. Run as administrator. Right click whatever icon or start menu item and click run as administrator. Being logged on as an...
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LudwigiB
aix_tech
May 4, 2010 3:07 am
BTW, please forgive my ignorance. But, the stmts in my config: 280 3490 C:\Data\Daten\hercules\3490.TAPE.sdov51.001.014.aws 400 3390...
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LudwigiB
aix_tech
May 4, 2010 3:11 am
I am running as Administrator. Also, User access control is disabled....
