haynieresearch / hrdplex-gui

A GUI Front End to the Hercules Mainframe Emulator

HRDPLEX-GUI

HRDPLEX-GUI is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) to the Hercules (https://github.com/hercules-390/hyperion) Mainframe Emulator. To use this application, you must have the Hercules Emulator installed with GUI support. As of Version 4, this should be enabled by default.

Setup

1. Run Qt's makefile generation command at the root folder

$ qmake

2. Start the build process

$ make

3. Install hrdplex-gui

$ sudo make install

Prerequisites

1. Get Hercules installed and running: https://hercules-390.github.io/html/hercinst.html
2. Download & Install MVS 3.8J: http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/
   1. I find the MVS Tur(n)key system to be the easiest, especailly for novice users.
   2. Jay Moseley's documetation also very useful: http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules

My Setup

I am currently running Hercules & MVS on two seperate machines. One acts as a DASD Controller, the second as the actual system. This creates a somewhat loose SYSPLEX, but it's kind of a stretch to call it even that. Both machines are directly wired to each other over a gigabit connection. The only traffic over this connection is the DASD packets. I am able to get a decent MIPS rate, almost 500 total. I am also running two quasi-LPAR's (they are not real LPAR's, but Hercules thinks they are) on this setup.

2. SYSPLEX Controller

   1. Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
   2. 8 3GHZ CPU's
   3. 32GB Memory
   4. 1TB HD (500GB usable) configured RAID 1

3. DASD Controller

   1. Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
   2. 8 2GHZ CPU's
   3. 16GB Memory
   4. 8TB HD (4GB usable) configured RAID 1

Functionality Wishlist

1. Built in master console
2. Tape robot system
3. Print to printer from MVS
4. Virtual SYSPLEX/Distributed System

Assumptions

This software makes a couple of assumptions, I will list them below and you can either update/install what is needed on your system or make the required changes.

1. C++ compiler (Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install build-essential)
2. Qt development framework from a release above 5.5.1.