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Hercules is an open source software implementation of the mainframeSystem/370 and ESA/390 architectures, in addition to the new 64-bitz/Architecture. Hercules runs under Linux, Windows (98, NT, 2000, and XP),Solaris, FreeBSD,and Mac OS X (10.3 and later).
Hercules is OSI Certified Open Source Softwarelicensed under the terms of the Q Public Licence.
Hercules was created by Roger Bowler and is maintained by Jay Maynard.Jan Jaeger designed and implemented many of the advanced features ofHercules, including dynamic reconfiguration, integrated console,interpretive execution and z/Architecture support. A dedicated crew ofprogrammers is constantly at work implementing new features and fixing bugs.
To find out more about Hercules, follow these links:
Web documentation:
PDF manuals:
To download the current release version, use the following links:
- Source tarball:
- Linux:
- hercules-3.07-1.i686.rpm: 32-bit Intel RPM
- hercules-3.07-1.x86_64.rpm: 64-bit Intel RPM
- hercules-3.07-1.src.rpm: SourceRPM (if you want to build RPMs yourself)
- Windows native program:
- hercules-3.07-w32.msi:Windows 32-bit Installer package
- hercules-3.07-w32.zip:32-bit binaries only archive
- hercules-3.07-w64.msi:Windows 64-bit Installer package
- hercules-3.07-w64.zip:64-bit binaries only archive
Note: Installing the .msi Windows Installer package ensures therequired Microsoft Runtime components are installed and also providesconvenience shortcuts in the programs menu. If the required componentsare already present and the shortcuts are not needed on the target system,the self-extracting or .zip archive may be used instead.
The required component for this build is the x86 version of the C runtime atlevel 8.50727.762.
- Mac OS X:
- hercules-3.07-tiger.dmg: Mac OS X10.4 (Tiger) universal binary version, 32-bit Intel and PowerPC
- hercules-3.07-leopard.dmg: Mac OS X10.5 (Leopard) universal binary version, 32- and 64-bit Intel and PowerPC
- hercules-3.07-snowleopard.dmg: Mac OS X10.6 (Snow Leopard) universal binary version, 32- and 64-bit Intel
What people are saying about Hercules
'Never in my wildest dreams did I expect to see MVSrunning on a machine that I personally own.Hercules is a marvelous tool. My thanks to you all for a jobvery well done.'
—Reed H. Petty
'I do miss my mainframe a lot, and playing with Herc sure brings backmemories. Just seeing the IBM message prefixes, and responding toconsole messages again was a wonderful bit of nostalgia!'
—Bob Brown
'I have installed your absolutely fantastic /390 emulator.You won't believe what I felt when I saw the prompt.Congratulations, this is a terrific software.I really have not had such a fascinating and interestingtime on my PC lately.'
—IBM Large Systems Specialist
'Such simulators have been available for a long time. One of the mostcomplete (up to modern 64-bit z/Architecture) is hercules.'
—Michel Hack, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Super dragon boy mac os. 'An apparently excellent emulator that allows those open sourcedevelopers with an 'itch to scratch', to come to the S/390 tableand contribute.'
—Mike MacIsaac, IBM
'BTW grab a copy of Hercules and you can test it at home.It's a very good S/390 and zSeries (S/390 64bit) emulator.'
—Alan Cox
'It works even better than I imagined.Hercules is a fine piece of software!'
—Dave Sienkiewicz
'Hercules is a systems programmer's dream come true.'
—René Vincent Jansen
'Aside from the electric trains my parents gotme in 1953, this is the best toy I've ever been given,bar none.'
—Jeffrey Broido Slots lv download.
'Congratulations to you and your team on a fine piece of work!'
—Rich Smrcina
'Congratulations on a magnificent achievement!'
—Mike Ross
'For anyone thinking running Hercules is too much trouble or too hardor whatever, I came home from work one day and my 13 year old 8thgrade son had MVS running under VM under Hercules on Linux. He hadgotten all the information about how to do this from the Internet.When he complained about MVS console configuration and figuring outhow to get it to work with VM, I knew he had felt all the pain heever needed to feel about mainframes.'
—Scott Ledbetter, StorageTek
'I am running a fully graphical Centos z/Linux environment on my desktop.The Hercules emulator is an amazing feat of engineering.I just wanted to send my compliments to the team for an excellent job!Thanks much for making this product part of the open-source community!'
—Roby Gamboa
'I have DOS and DOS/VS running on Hercules withsome demo applications, both batch and on-line. It does bring backsome good memories. My compliments go to the Hercules team. Thank you.'
—Bill Carlborg
'This is stunning piece of work. To say that I am blown away is anunderstatement. I have a mainframe on my notebook!!!!!!P.S. Now if I can just remember my JCL'
—Roger Tunnicliffe
Read Hesh Wiener's Technology News article about Hercules athttp://www.tech-news.com/another/ap200601b.html
Read Moshe Bar's BYTE.com article about Hercules athttp://www.byte.com/documents/s=429/byt20000801s0002/
For eighteen months, the IBM RedbookSG24-4987 Linux for S/390 athttp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg244987.htmlcontained a chapter written by Richard Higsondescribing how to run Linux/390 under Hercules.Then suddenly, all mention of Hercules was mysteriouslyremoved from the online edition of the book!Read the story of the disappearing Redbook chapter athttp://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvtype?LINUX-VM.25658
View the foils from Jay Maynard's presentation given atSHARE Session 2880in San Francisco on 20 August 2002as a PDF file (815K) fromhttp://linuxvm.org/Present/SHARE99/S2880JMa.pdf
The Subversion source code repository
The complete source code for the current development version ofHercules is also available via anonymous access from our Subversion sourcecode repository. The Subversion URL is:
svn://svn.hercules-390.org/herculesDoing a checkout on module 'hercules' will get you the source for all ofHercules. You'll want to check out the trunk, instead of the wholerepository:
svn checkout svn://svn.hercules-390.org/hercules/trunk hercules
(The last hercules specifies the directory the checked out copy isplaced into.)Please note that this will get you the currentdevelopment version of Hercules, which is notrelease quality and thus might not even work (since it's still underdevelopment). If you want the current, stable, release versionof Hercules (i.e. one that is known to work properly), then use thepreviously mentioned links instead.
Please read the file README.CVS included with the source for additional and updatedinstructions for building the development version.
Other Hercules-related sites
- http://www.ibiblio.org/jmaynard/
Jay Maynard's IBM S/360 and S/370 Public Domain Software Collection - http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/hercules
Volker Bandke's Hercules site. This is the site for users of Hercules on Windows, and here you can also obtain Volker's MVS 3.8J turnkey system. - http://www.softdevlabs.com/Hercules/hercgui-index.html
Fish's Hercules GUI for Windows. - http://cbttape.org/~jmorrison/
Jim Morrison's downloads (includes 3380 support for MVS 3.8!) - http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules
Jay Moseley's Hercules site - lots of Hercules and MVS information - http://www.tommysprinkle.com/mvs
Tommy Sprinkle's MVS 3.8 documentation - http://hansen-family.com/mvs
Bob Hansen's MVS 3.8 documentation - http://www.schaefernet.de/hercules
Wolfgang Schäfer's Hercules site - MVT/MVS tutorials and add-ons
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If you have any questions or comments please consider joining the hercules-390 discussion group athttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/hercules-390.
Mainframe Mac Os
Bug reports (together with your diagnosis of the fault, please)may be sent to me, Jay Maynard,at jmaynard @conmicro.com.
IBM, System/370, ESA/390, and z/Architecture are trademarks orregistered trademarks of IBM Corporation.Other product names mentioned here are trademarks of other companies.
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(This post is about automating Excel on Mac OS. Play blackjack free for fun. If you're not a Mac user this probably won't interest you.)
My Process
From the creation of a CSV file onwards, automation is key:
Creating a CSV file is one of two things:
- A program on z/OS.
- A piece of javascript code I have that turns HTML tables into CSV.
So that's not a problem. Where the problem starts is automating Excel, which is what this post is about.
Here is the sequence I generally go through with Excel:
- Excel ingests the CSV file.
- Then it moves onto the business of creating a chart.
- Then resizing the chart.
- Then changing some of the attributes of the chart.
- Finally exporting the chart in the graphical format that I can use in a presentation.
I orchestrate a lot of things with the Keyboard Maestro automation platform. It's well worth the money, even if it is your own money. I might kick off a Keyboard Maestro macro in one of several ways:
- By a hot key combination
- Using a Stream Deck
- Using the Metagrid app on a USB-attached iPad.
(As an aside on the 'hot key' combination, I've repurposed the Caps Lock key to pop up a menu of automations – using Karabiner Elements and a Keyboard Maestro conflict palette.)
ApplesScript And Excel
AppleScript it the prevalent automation language on Mac OS. I have to say the AppleScript support in Excel is very obtuse. So most of the value in this post is a few snippets of AppleScript that people trying to use the data model might find useful.
One tip: If you look at the VBA data model for Excel the AppleScript support is very similar to it, language differences apart.
So here are some snippets of code you might find useful.
Changing A Chart's Type
To change the currently selected (active) chart's type to a line chart you would code
Note the name 'line chart' is not a string. It is literally line chart. I think this is confusing. Other chart types I've automated have been
xyscattercolumn stackedcolumn stacked 100
This last is where the y axis stops at 100%.
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Editing The Title Of A Chart
The following example does a number of things:
- Prompt you for a title for the current (active) chart.
- Sets the chart title to the text you returned.
- Sets the font size of the title to 24 points.
Here is the code: Revive mac os.
Setting The Dimensions Of A Chart
I always want the dimensions of a chart to be the same – and suitable for including in a PowerPoint presentation. I have two scripts for setting the dimensions of the active chart:
- Single Width
- Double Width
Only the single width one is right for putting in a presentation:
The double width one came in very handy recently: It was a great way to zoom in on a time line:
I've set these two up on a pair of buttons in Metagrid – so I can readily swap between the two sizes.
In Conclusion
You might wonder why I've created a blog post that is essentially code snippets. Here's why: It took a lot of fiddling, experimentation and web searching to come up with these snippets of code. That they were hard to come up with or find says something.
This post will be findable from Duck Duck Go etc. I hope it saves people some time and frustration.
If you're not into automation I might be beginning to warm you to it.
I have a lot of Keyboard Maestro macros for Excel that I have yet to convert to pure AppleScript – and these are mainly fiddling with menus. (Keyboard Maestro is very good at that but it is slower and less reliable to automate that way.) As I convert some more I might well post additional code snippets.
