This link downloads a zip archive of jcl and instructions from the yahoo group. Turnkey versions of vm370 are available on david wades g4ugms vintage and. Hercules setup utility is useful serial port terminal rs485 or rs232 terminal, udpip terminal and tcpip client server terminal. Hyperion is developed and supported by a small group of volunteers. To download the current release version, use the following links. While there are other oss that can be run with hercules, the most popular 3 are dosvs, mvs, and vm370.
It was maintained by robert ohara and is now almost ten years old. Hercules is a computer emulator allowing software written for ibm mainframe computers system370, system390, and zseriessystem z and for plug compatible mainframes such as amdahl machines to run on other types of computer hardware, notably on lowcost personal computers. Some of the packages are very old and may even work in vm370 running under the hercules system370. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe system 370 and esa390 architectures, in addition to the new 64bit zarchitecture. The current hercules distribution of vm 370 is the socalled sixpack, version 1.
Hercules is a software implementation of the system370, esa390 and zarchitecture mainframe. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe. In this tutorial we are going to install vm370 into the hercules emulator. Installing vm370 on hercules computer history wiki. You are able to use you own config and disk with this docker container by using the following. It was created for hw group internal use only, but today its includes many functions in one utility and its freeware. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe system 370 and esa390 architectures, in addition to the latest 64bit zarchitecture. The hercules system370, esa390, and zarchitecture emulator. Next run your 3270 terminal program, and attach to the localhost port 3270. It has a more uptodate gcc with a choice of runtime libraries and extra editor modifications to allow editing multiple files. Development started in 1999 by roger bowler, a mainframe systems programmer. Hercules is osi certified open source software licensed under the terms of the q public licence hercules was created by roger bowler. This is a great hobby for retirees that had hands on.
Hercules runs under linux, windows, solaris, freebsd, and mac os x. Sadly i really dont know how to use the os, and ive just gotten it to. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe system370 and esa390 architectures, in addition to the new 64bit zarchitecture. Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframe system370 and esa390 architectures, in addition to the latest 64bit zarchitecture. Hercules runs under linux, windows 98, nt, 2000, and xp, solaris, freebsd, and mac os x 10. Hercules is osi certified open source software licensed under the terms of the q public licence.
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