The MP3000 red book explains how the system fits together. An interesting read even if you
don't have one..
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at
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Sotomayor
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Subject: Re: R: Booting an IBM MP 3000 S/390 System
It takes 20-30 minutes from the time that I hit the power switch until there's
a login screen on the 3179s (not including the time it takes to IML the 3174
controller). So you can see, I did a bit of editing to get a 9 minute video. ;-)
The service board is located in the chassis. It plugs into the PCI backplane.
However other z/Series machines have an "external" laptop (though from
what I can tell, there's a drawer that the laptop sits in that you pull out when
you need to do something with the service element.
TTFN - Guy
On 8/11/15 5:44 AM, Mazzini Alessandro wrote:
Well, that was an interesting video. How long did
it take to get it fully
loaded ?
The "service" Celeron board, is it
interfaced internally to the rest, or
externally ?
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Oggetto: Re: Booting an IBM MP 3000 S/390 System
z/OS is a licensed product from IBM (read $$$'s involved). Generally you
can't run anything newer than MVS 3.8j on Hercules. See the Hercules
website (
http://www.hercules-390.eu). It has links to other sites where you
can get various OS's and other programs that can be legally run.
Note that there is a "turnkey" system for MVS 3.8j that is set up for
Hercules that has an ISPF-like clone. I have that set up to run on my Mac. I
also have the VM/370 "sixpack" installed as well when I want to run VM/370.
The version of z/OS installed on my MP3000 does have ISPF (along with
lots of other program
products) installed.
TTFN - Guy
On 8/10/15 2:33 PM, Sean Caron wrote:
> Does it include ISPF? Using MVS is a bear without it...
>
> Best,
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 5:17 PM, Mazzini Alessandro <mazzinia at tin.it>
wrote:
>
>> Well, there's a z/os image for hercules, floating around....
>>
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>> Da: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at
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>> Monceaux
>> Inviato: luned? 10 agosto 2015 21:55
>> A: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
>> Oggetto: Re: Booting an IBM MP 3000 S/390 System
>>
>> Guy,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 11:20:42PM -0700, Guy Sotomayor wrote:
>>
>>> I spent some time today and made a video of my MP 3000 system
>>> booting up to z/OS. The video is here:
http://youtu.be/WnJmeQR0GQU.
>> Sadly I'll have to wait until I get
home to watch it. YouTube is
>> blocked where I work. I suspect I'll be experiencing extreme envy as I
watch it.
>>> The closest I have is Hercules running the OSes freely available to
>>> hobbyists. Just one thing - one doesn't boot z/OS, one IPL's z/OS.
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Kevin
>>>
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>>>
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>>> Bruceville, TX
>>>
>>> What's the definition of a legacy system? One that works!
>>> Errare humanum est, ignoscere caninum.
>>>
>>>