RUMBLE SEEMS TO BE BROKEN. HERE IS THE FULL VIDEO: https://x.com/gmgauthier1967/status/1882058988612911272 Many people have been struggling with the written instructions. So, today I'm going to do a long-form walk through of the ENTIRE PROCESS. Hopefully, this will give people what they need to get themselves started.

I do a walk-through of the MVS 3.8J Turnkey package, and how to use it to do your own mainframe stuff. Moshix Mainframe Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@moshixmainframechannel MVS Turnkey 5 Update 3: https://www.prince-webdesign.nl/index.php/software/mvs-3-8j-turnkey-5 Hercules Hardware Emulator: http://www.hercules-390.org/ MVS 3.8j bare OS (without sysgen): https://cbttape.org/~jmorrison/mvs38j/index.html A medium article that walks through installing TK-4 (the previous version of Turnkey): https://bradricorigg.medium.com/run-your-own-mainframe-using-hercules-mainframe-emulator-and-mvs-3-8j-tk4-55fa7c982553

RUMBLE SEEMS TO BE BROKEN. HERE IS THE FULL VIDEO: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1lDxLlzRDoMxm This will make your output much prettier! Also, it will give you more of an "original" kind of mainframe experience.

Let's add some users to our new system

Now that we have our mainframe, what can we do with it? Let's customise our user session, create some files, edit some code, run some jobs, and learn about the TSO scripting language Rexx.

Readings from System 370 / 390 Job Control Language, by Gary DeWard Brown, to edify and entertain my PC and Retro friends

I'm on a break between contracts. So, let's have some fun.

What if you just wanted to use your TK5 mainframe as a compiler/interpreter for

We're copying the builtin "MORT***" program from the Dartmouth DTSS emulator, over to the Hercules MVS 3.8j emulator.