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Installing the Tur(n)key System

When you want to install the supplied Tur(n)key System, you will have have to setup the Hercules environment first. Therefore the setup script will now ask a few questions:

  Hercules installation definition

Do you want to install Hercules from the CDROM?

===> [ N ]

The setup script does not know if you already have Hercules installed or not. Therefore it asks you if you want to install the precompiled binaries from CDRom, or if you want to use the Hercules intallation that is already in place on your system. If you just press [ENTER], then nothing will actually be done by the setup script. Selecting entering Y or y will indicate that you want Hercules installed on your hard drive

  Cygwin support file installation

Do you want to install the Cygwin 1.3.10 support files from the CDROM?

===> [ N ]

Just pressing the [ENTER] key, or typing n will do nothing. This is recommended if you have this or a higher version of the Cygwin support files already installed on your machine. If you do need the support files, enter y. A new question now pops up:

  TN3270 Terminal Emulator installation

Do you want to install c3270 3.2 from the CDROM

===> [ N ]

In order to access MVS via a TSO session you will need a 3270 emulator program. You may already have one installed on your system, in which case you just press [ENTER] or the default n. Otherwise, by selecting y, a pre-compiled binary will be installed with an open source tn3270 emulator called c3270.

The next part of the installation script deals with the hard disks and directories on your system: The installation script needs to know where the Tur(n)key system is supposed to be installed. Just pressing [ENTER] will install everything into the suggested directory, but of course you can specify a different target directory if you want. Do not use blanks or spaces in the directory path

  Target directory definition

Please enter the target directory, or press enter for default (mvs38j)

The directory can be given as an absolute path, i.e. with a \ character or a
drive letter (like C:) at the beginning, or relative to

C:\Program Files

With other words, the default installation directory is

C:\Program Files\mvs38j

Please do NOT use blanks/spaces in the directory name!

===> [ N ]

The Tur(n)key system comes with quite many DASD images. You can now decide to either copy them to your local hard disk (which would take up to 500 MB). or to leave them on the CDROM. You can also decide if you want to use shadow files (For more information on hercules and disk usage you should check the DASD Documentation for Hercules. The setup script will show the following screen:


  Turnkey DASD location definition

   1.   Use DASD images from CD-ROM
        (Somewhat slower, requires about 40 MB disk space)

   2.   Copy DASD images to local hard disk  (default)
        (faster, but requires from 150 to 500 MB disk space)

   3.   Copy DASD images to local hard disk and use shadow files
        (same space as above, allows easier fallback)


Your choice  ===>

If you choose option 1, then the DASD images will be kept on the CDROM, and only the changes will be written to disk. This tends to put a severe strain on the CD-ROM drive, and there have been reported premature death of CD-Rom drives. Given today prices for hard disk space I would strongly recommend not to use this option.

Option # 2 will copy all the DASD images to the target drive into the dasd subdirectory of the installation directory. This is the easiest option, and is the default on this screen.

When you choose option 3, then the dasd images will be copied to the installation directory as well. But, the configuration file for Hercules will now indicate that shadow files are to be used, with other words, that changes are not written to the base file, but to a secondary dasd image file (the shadow file, you guessed it)

You might want to have all the dasd files installed, or you might want to choose just some of them. I have arranged the dasd images into 5 groups, out of which 4 groups are optional and can be unselected:

The next question(s) will ask for some operation parameters for Hercules:

  Console Port (CNSLPORT) Definition

Please enter the portnumber that Hercules should listen at
for incoming telnet and/or tn3270 connections for its builtin telnet server
===> [ 3270 ]

The console port (CNSLPORT) is the TCP/IP port number on which Hercules will listen to incoming telnet and/or tn3270 requests. The number shown is the default port number which will be selected when you just press [ENTER]. Please note that the port number has no relationship to the devicetype being used, i.e. a TN3270 session may well be connected to port 5555, and a device 3505 may well be connected to port 3270

Another TCP/IP port used by Hercules is the Socket Reader Device port. This port allows sending JCL streams to the MVS reader via a TCP/IP connection. Which port number should be used will be configured via the next prompt:

  Socket Reader Device Port Definition

Please enter the portnumber that Hercules should listen at
for incoming data for the socket device card reader
===> [ 3505 ]

Again, if you just press [ENTER], the default port number shown will be used.

Hercules provides a (rudimentary) http server which can be used to control Hercules operations via a web browser. This server will listen to incoming http requests on the port number specified on the next question:

  Web server port (HTTPPORT) Definition

Please enter the portnumber that Hercules should listen at
for incoming http requests to its builtin web server
===> [ 8081 ]

The time for questions is nearly over now. The setup script will now show the installation options so far:


  Installation options:


CPU Type is: i686
Source path: /cygdrive/e/turnkey_3_cd = e:\turnkey_3_cd
Target path: /cygdrive/e/mvs38j_test = e:\mvs38j_test
Type of installation: turnkey
Location of Tur(n)key DASD images: HD
Hercules installation: N
C3270 installation: N
Telnet console port: 3270
Web server port: 8081
Socket device port: 3505
C3270 installation: N


Continue with Installation

===> (Y)?

Pressing the ENTER key will now complete the installation, and you will see the progress like this:


Building ./conf directory
Installing startup scripts for Windows
Building ./dasd directory
Copying PAGE disk images
Copying SPOOL disk images
Copying MVS system disk images
Copying public volume disk images
Copying Sortwork disk images
Copying Scratch disk images
Copying Starter system disk images
Copying CBT disk images
Copying MVS Source disk images
Copying SMP disk images
Building ./jcl directory
Building ./scripts directory
Building ./shadow directory
Building ./prt directory
Building ./pch directory
Building ./log directory
Building ./tapes directory

Press the ENTER key to continue

and, when you press ENTER now, the installation ends with the following screen:

+=============================================================================+ 
|                                                                             |
|                         Installation is now complete                        |
|                         ============================                        |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
|     You can now change to the installation directory and start MVS 3.8      |
|     by entering                                                             |
|                                                                             |
|     startmvs                                                                |
|                                                                             |
|     on the command line                                                     |
|                                                                             |
|                                                                             |
|                        Enjoy your private mainframe                         |
|                                                                             |
+=============================================================================+

Press the ENTER key to continue

The Tur(n)key system has been setup with certain defaults as of number of master terminals, TSO sessions, etc. The documentation in this cookbook referes to this default configuration. You may change the configuration though at any time by either modifying the file conf/turnkey_mvs.conf manually or running the service script setterm.bat in the installation subdirectory.

You might now want to continue with an MVS IPL