Older Versions of CBT Archives

Installation

Download the archive for the volume using the link from the table above.  Each archive contains a DASD volume image and a jobstream.  Extract the volume into the directory holding your DASD images for Hercules, using your preferred program (WinZip, WinRar, UnZIP, tar).  Edit your Hercules' configuration file to add the DASD into your system at an available address for the type of DASD or use the 'attach' command on the Hercules console.  Each volume contains its own User Catalog into which all of the datasets have been catalogued.  The provided jobstream will import/connect the User Catalog to your Master Catalog and define an Alias to allow access to the individual datasets via the catalog.  Alternatively you can access them using RPF option 3.4 and specify the Volume Serial # to access the datasets without using the catalog.

If you intend to leave the DASD volume permanently mounted, it is suggested that you edit your VATLST to add an entry for the volumes added to direct MVS to place them into the category of PRIVATE at IPL time:

    CBT*  ,1,2,3350 ,N    PRIVATE-CBT VOLUMES/3350

The available space remaining on any particular volume varies, but the User Catalog is allocated only with the intention of holding the datasets currently existing.

The DASD images, as supplied, are uncompressed.  If you wish to compress them, use the Hercules' utility: dasdcopy -z <uncompressed image file> <compressed image file> to compress them after unpacking them from the archive.

SHARE Program Library Agency

Although not precisely connected with CBT material, I have also dropped the contents of the SPLA tapes (I believe created January 1, 1996) onto a 3390 volume and am providing it for download here.

As with the CBT archives above, the SPLA archive contains a DASD volume image and a jobstream.  The SPLA00 DASD is a non-standard size 3390, as it required somewhat more space than was available on a 3390-1, but since Hercules has no difficulty accessing non-standard size DASD images, this will not be a problem.  The volume contains a User Catalog in which all 2,295 datasets have been catalogued and there is a jobstream included to import/connect the User Catalog into your Master Catalog.

There is some degree of duplication of the material contained on the SPLA tapes because later versions of tapes submitted for inclusion in the SPLA material often contained some components which were not changed from a prior version.  I have dropped all files from the SPLA tapes to this volume, without regard for duplication.  As I was working on dropping the contents of the tapes to the volume, I created an abstract, and the PDF containing that document is:  SPLA tape reload abstract.pdf.  I have used the abstract to attempt to identify the contents of the files on the SPLA tapes, using the documentation included with the SPLA tapes (where available) or directly from the files.  The abstract also indicates files that I did not restore, as in the case of tape header/trailer labels and null/deleted files, which litereally had no content or contained a single record stating something similar to 'this file has been intentionally omitted'.  Two of the SPLA tapes were versions of CBT tapes and in those two cases I have included the contents on CBT volumes (above) rather than drop them onto the SPLA00 volume.

SHARE MVS Mods Tape

And also a SHARE MVS Mods tape from July 28, 1980.  As with the other volumes above, the volume contains a User Catalog into which all the datasets are catalogued; the archive contains a jobstream to import the User Catalog into your Master Catalog.

SHARE JES2 Mods Tape

And a SHARE JES2 Mods tape from December 14, 1987.  As with the other volumes above, the volume contains a User Catalog into which all the datasets are catalogued; the archive contains a jobstream to import the User Catalog into your Master Catalog.

I found this in an old archive; I suspect it is identical to the copy at CBT in thier 'historical mods' collection.  Based on the date of probable origin and small number of files on the tape I put it on a 3330 image.  As with the other tapes, it has its own User Catalog, which you may import into your Master Catalog, if you want to.

I hope that you have found my instructions useful.  If you have questions that I can answer to help expand upon my explanations and examples shown here, please don't hesitate to send them to me:

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