- Running MVS on your own emulated Mainframe or…
…Welcome to Jurassic Parc. The world of the Dinosaurs.
I’m a Java programmer since my very first days as a professional software engineer. Before that, I started programming with BASIC and Assembler on a Commodore +4. During my studies is programmed C on an ATARI-ST or on Solaris Workstations. My first job was in the ...
- Installing and starting HERCULES and MVS
The easy part…
installing and starting HERCULES today (2023) really is no problem at all. It can run on any commonly used OS like Windows, MacOS, and Linux. I choose my old Raspberry PI 3B as my mainframe platform. And it does the job quite well for one user. So how is it going:
My first try ...
- Running HERCULES 4.X Hyperion in a Docker Container
… when two worlds come together
Hercules is actively developed under the project Hercules Hyperion and the current release 4.5 is available on github. I tried to compile it on my macOS but got some trouble with the software not being available and so I decide to give docker a chance and carry this cute little ...
- KICKS-Starter!
…Installing a “Transaction Monitor”
When I first heard of someone talking about COBOL online programs they always used the term “transaction monitor” and CICS. Me, as a java developer, was wondering why monitoring a database transaction is so important for the development of the 3270-Screens. As I learned now, I couldn’t be more wrong!
In “Jurassic Park” ...
