Hercules 2.17 announcement

Jay Maynard

Feb 2, 2003

What's new in release 2.17

Release date: 1 February 2003
* Restructured DASD subsystem: better use of memory, compressed FBA
support, framework for shared DASD (Greg Smith)
* New dasdcopy utility replaces ckd2cckd and cckd2ckd, and adds
compressed FBA support (Greg Smith)
* Native support for Mac OS X 10.2 and above (Paul Scott)
* Reworked CTC and LCS emulation (Jim Pierson)
* SMP host integrity fixes (Greg Smith and Jan Jaeger)
* Fixes for compile errors with gcc 3.x (Greg Smith and David "Fish"
Trout)
* S/370 dual address space and MVS assist fixes (Jan Jaeger)
* Renumbered all messages to consistent format, removed duplicate
numbers, and began message documentation (Jay Maynard)
* Added options for 1052/3215 consoles and card readers (Jay
Maynard)
* Numerous instruction and I/O emulation fixes (Greg Smith, Jan
Jaeger, Juergen Dobrinski, Bernard van der Helm, Andy Norrie, and
David "Fish" Trout)

This one's been a long time coming, but I believe it's worth the wait.

6:31 pm

Hercules 2.17.1 announcement

Jay Maynard

Feb 12, 2003

What's new in release 2.17.1
Release date: 12 February 2003
* Corrected RPM installed files permissions (John Summerfield)
* Corrected dasdload verbosity level (Jay Maynard)
* Corrected card reader eof/intrq option handling, added * to
designate no file loaded (Jay Maynard)
* Correct SLB instruction condition code (Jan Jaeger)
* Fix dasdutil.c track conversion function (Jim Morrison)

This version fixes some bugs that needed fixing for the release of the MVT
Turnkey CD. If you're not doing anything listed above, then you need not
install this version.

For Windows users: This version was compiled against version 1.3.20 of the
Cygwin libraries. You should install them using the Cygwin setup program.
See http://www.cygwin.com for details. Due to licensing restrictions, the
Cygwin libraries will not be made available for download from the main
Hercules site.

10:32 pm