Re: Accessing P/390 3390 disk images from Herc

There is a dmap2hrc command that converts the p390 devmap that was on one of the cd’s to a Hercules config file. I tried it once when I had a S/390 IS many years ago.

Laddie Hanus

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> On May 27, 2019, at 2:55 AM, 'Dave Wade' [email protected] [hercules-390] <[email protected]> wrote:
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> As most folks have said they are AWS images and so directly accessible by Hercules. If they are big 3390’s you might want to use DASDCOPY to compress them first.
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> Note that going the other way does not seem to work. I had to use DDR to back up and restore the VM/370 Six pack DASD, just copying them to single un-compressed files did not work.
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> And if they are 3390 so CKD then it is not a great idea to define them as FBA to Hercules.
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> Dave
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> From: [email protected] <[email protected]> 
> Sent: 27 May 2019 01:41
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> Subject: [hercules-390] Accessing P/390 3390 disk images from Herc
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> Anybody have any clues/tips as to how to get started trying to access P/390 (or R/390) disk image files from Hercules?
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> cheers,
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> William Denton
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