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The MVS Turnkey systemtutorialThe MVS Turnkey system is a ready to use

Mainframe system. Also, it is totally FREE. In this

tutorial i will give you a complete overview on

how you can download, install and use this

system. So, let’s start

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Table of Contents1. Download and Install the MVS TurnkeySystem2. Boot the MVS Turnkey system3. Let’s connect to our Mainframe using a 3270Emulator4. Di�erent Operations on MVS Turnkey system

4.1. Generate a Dataset List using option 3.44.2. Allocate a Dataset using option 3.24.3. Submit a JCL using the submit command

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Download and Install theMVS Turnkey System

The system is available at the following link:

http://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/

MVS Turnkey Homepage

At the bottom of the page you will �nd the link to

the latest Turnkey system called:

tk4-_v1.00_current.zip

4.4. Check the output of this JOB using option3.8 – OUTLIST

5. Conclusion




http://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/tk4-_v1.00_current.zip



So, click on it to download the system which is a

zip �le of 227 MB size. Extract this zip �le using

any of the unzipping software you have such as

Winzip, Winrar or 7-zip.

MVS TK4 system zip �le of size 227 MB

Extracted MVS Turnkey system

By default the console mode is o� on this

system. So, you have to activate it by going

inside the folder called unattended. There you

will �nd a �le called set_console_mode.bat.

Double click this �le and the console mode will

become active.

Double click on set console mode to activate the console



Console mode has been activated

This completes your installation. Let us now boot

this system up.

Boot the MVS Turnkeysystem

Go to your extracted folder and double click on

this �le called mvs.bat. This will start booting up

the system.

Double click on mvs.bat to boot up your MVS Turnkey system



MVS Turnkey system is now Booting up

If you press the ESCAPE key then you will be able

to see the details of the system such as the

Peripherals connected, MIPS of the mainframe,

CPU Percentage etc. Press the ESCAPE key again

and you will come back to the console.

If you press the ESCAPE key, then you will be able to see the

peripherals connected on this mainframe

When you see a Turkey and a TK4- symbol then

that means the boot up process has now

�nished. This is how it will look like:



The Bootup process is now �nished

Let us now connect to our Mainframe.

Let’s connect to ourMainframe using a 3270Emulator

For this you can use any of the 3270 emulators

available in the market. Since Vista TN3270

emulator is one of the most used Emulators, i

will use this one. So, open the Vista Terminal

emulator and give the IP address as localhost

and Port number as 3270.

IP Address : localhost

Port number : 3270



Give IP address as localhost and port as 3270 to connect to your

MVS turnkey system

We are now connected to our MVS Turnkey system

If instead of the above screen you see a screen

like the below, then just give TSO in that screen

and press the Enter screen. It will then ask for

your Username and password.

MVS Turnkey Login screen



Congrats !!! We are now connected to our MVS

Turnkey system. Let us now login. Click

anywhere on the screen and it will ask for a

Username. Give the below username and

password to login to the system.

Username: HERC01

Password: CUL8TR

Enter your username here which is HERC01

Username is HERC01

Enter your password in the next screen which is CUL8TR



You will now be logged in to the system

Wisdom screen on the system. The system always greet you with a

quote like this.

We are now logged in to the system

If instead of the TSO Applications you see a

READY prompt then just give the command

TSOAPPLS to go the the TSO applications.



Give tsoappls in the READY prompt to go to the TSO

applications

Di�erent Operations onMVS Turnkey system

Generate a Dataset List usingoption 3.4

On z/OS we use 3.4 for getting a dataset list.

Similarly on the MVS Turnkey system we have an

option called RFE. It stands for Review Front End

and is meant to be a substitute of ISPF.

RFE option in the MVS Turnkey system



RFE option to see the dataset list

We can give here 3.4 which takes us to the

dataset list. Now i can give the pre�x i want such

as SYS1, which will show me the datasets whose

name start with SYS1.

Give here 3.4 to get your dataset list

here give pre�x such as SYS1 to see all the datasets starting with

SYS1



Dataset list of datasets starting with SYS1 is now listed in RFE

Allocate a Dataset using option3.2

Now to create a dataset the option is same as

ISPF that is option 3.2

option 3.2 will create a new dataset

allocate new dataset screen



dataset has now been allocated

Submit a JCL using the submitcommand

To submit a JCL we can give the submit command

in the command line.

submit command

JOB has been submitted

JOB has given a return code of 8

Check the output of this JOBusing option 3.8 – OUTLIST

If you want to check the output of the JCL then

you can use the option 3.8. This option 3.8 is the

substitute of SDSF. Here we can see our JOB

output. Now to see the JOB output just give s in

front of the JOB that you just executed. Then, it



will show the JOB details and the output

produced from the JOB.

OUTLIST option to see the JOB output

OUTLIST job details

Give s in front of the JOBNAME to see the JOB details



JCL Mainframe MVS MVS turnkey system OUTLIST

TSOAPPLS Turnkey

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You will now see the details of this JOB

Conclusion

There are multiple reasons why this system is

not su�cient to learn Mainframes. It does not

have subsystem such as CICS and DB2. These

subsystems are absolutely essential if you want

to learn about Mainframes. VSAM is also not

available. Hence we need to get access to a real

Mainframe. I have written a detailed article on

how you can get access to a Mainframe. You can

�nd that article here.

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