My MVS

My custom MVS generated by Sysgen.

Logon

Command	Action
LOGON HMVS01	logon HMVS01 user, with 8192Kb storage
LOGON HMVS01 SIZE(4096)	logon HMVS01 user, with 4096Kb storage

Users

Username	Password	Role
IBMUSER	SYS1	Super user
HMVS01	CUL8TR	Admin
HMVS02	PASS4U	Normal user

Software

• MVS 3.8j
• Automated MVS3.8j Sysgen
• Assembler updates
• BLKDISK
• BREXX370 2.5
• EZASMI
• FSI
• FSS
• FTPD
• IMON370
• INDFILE
• MDDIAG8
• OFFLOAD
• QUEUE
• RAKF
• REVIEW 50.3
• RPF 1.92
• SYSCPK compilers

DASD

• See https://ibmmainframes.com/references/disk.html

PUB000

• model: 3380
• cyls: 886
• heads: 15
• tracks: 13290
• trklen: 47616
• bytes per track: 47,476
• bytes per cylinder: 712,140
• bytes per module: 630,243,900

PUB001

• model: 3390
• cyls: 1114
• heads: 15
• tracks: 16710
• trklen: 56832
• bytes per track: 56,664
• bytes per cylinder: 849,960
• bytes per module: 946,005,480

Running MyMVS

01_mvs_ramdisk_create.sh

• Increase speed and throughput of DASD volumes creating a RAM disk.

02_mvs_start.sh

• Initialize MVS in attended mode
• Restore shadow snapshots from dasd_shadows.tar.gz
• If you turn off hercules, you don't damage DASD files. Sometimes, I prefer to kill Hercules and restart MVS again.
• TODO make a finalization attended mode

03_mvs_save_state.sh

• After shutdown MVS, you may/must save current DASD shadow files.
• Rename and move current dasd_shadows.tar.gz in ./backups folder.
• Save shadow files from RAM DISK into a tgz file.

04_mvs_ramdisk_destroy.sh

• Destroy RAM DISK

05_listen_console.sh

• When VTAM (MVS) is on, a x3270 console is started.
• You need to install x3270
• Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt -y install x3270

06_update_spool.sh

• Adapted script from MVSSplit
• Separate job reports from 'prt00e.txt' to 'spool' folder