We have JES3 on Hercules working!!

With Peter Jansen's amazing CTCE adaptor addition to Hercules, we now have for the first time ever the ability to create JES2 MAS (multi-access spool) clusters, and,  JES3 single system image (SSI) complexes.

Yes, yes, I know. Some of the "wizards" out there will say they have been doing this for years with VM and the coupling facility code in there. But I am talking about using pure Hercules and since CTCE support is still quite new, it's really not that long that we can do JES3 clusters on Hercules


Thanks to Kevin Leonard's untiring work to resurrect JES3 version 3.00 (formerly known as ASP), we now have a running MVS 3.8j with JES3 complex up and running.

Here is a screenshot of a full MVS 3.8 JES3 complex up and running:




 Notice, how TK4A and TK4B are both online and communciating to each other via the CTC devices. That's a Global Processor and a Local Processor in a JES3 complex. 

Over the next few blogs I will outline how to obtain, start, and manage a JES3 cluster based on Hercules and MVS3.8j as delivered by Juergen Winkelmann's TK4-.





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