Re: BETA News 10-05-21 -- ALPHA Released

> ikj1234i wrote:

> Found this old email from Phil re: the alpha and I've re-pasted it
> below.  If the re-posting of this helps anyone - thank Phil.  If it
> causes any troubles - blame me (hah).  AFAIK any mention of running a
> Herc snapshot is no longer needed though as everything is now
> included in Hercules 3.07.
 
> Would be interested in feedback from folks testing the TTY and/or
> the SNA/3705 stuff...

><snip>

Thanks Max.  To add a little more, if it works it is the result of several people, me being the least of them.  If it is broken, then I am sure I did it.

Like the JES2PARMs being backleveled because I copied in the shadow file to replace the formatted spool ( it's saved space to ship unformatted ).

This JES2 parm business may not affect anything you are doing at all.  If you are trying to run RJE it may.  There may have been other changes as well, but I don't remember what they were off hand.

To run with the intended PARMS one can shutdown JES2 and restart it with "S JES2,P=PARMLIB".  This should pick up the backup JES2PARM member in SYS1.PARMLIB which I believe is the intended PARMS for the distribution.  To change the initial startup of JES2 to the intended PARMS, one can copy member JES2PARM from SYS1.PARMLIB to JES2PARM in SYS1.JES2PARM.

Among reasons for releasing the ALPHA was for folks to go ahead and test the new items included, like the 3705 stuff and KICKs stuff.

Phil