Converts an OS/390 ADCD disk image set into an Hercules distribution

Caveat

makedist is intended as a tool for mainframe hobbyists, not for software pirates: thus, this repository does not contain the disk images required to use this software, as they are property of IBM. Before using this script you should understand that the ADCDs supported by makedist are not licensed to run on anything other than a P/390 or an R/390 system, and running the distribution derived from this script constitutes a violation of IBM's license agreement.

• cnf/ - Configuration files for Hercules
  • os390_v1r2.cnf - Translation of DEVMAP.NME from the OS/390 V1R2 ADCD disk image set
  • os390_v2r10.cnf - Translation of DEVMAP.NME from the OS/390 V2R10 ADCD disk image set
• makedist - The main script that checks the images' checksums and performs the conversion
• README.md - This file

The script has been developed and tested on bash under Ubuntu and Fedora Linux, and should work on any distribution that has bash and hercules without issues.

• makedist.sh - Mandatory
  • bash
  • sudo
  • md5sum
  • unzip
  • dasdcopy (part of Hercules)

$ chmod +x makedist
$ ./makedist -d v2r10 -D path/to/isos -ot local/prefix

Creates an OS/390 V2R10 ADCD distribution into ./local/prefix from disk images located into ./path/to/isos overwriting existing distribution files.

In order of importance:

• Fixing v1r2
• Testing on different Linux distributions
• Adding an option to choose a different target directory
  • Adding an option to allow the user to use an absolute path at their own risk
• Adding support for v2r10 (mainly ISO checksums, DASD conversion strategies and the translation of DEVMAP.NME)
• Allow using /tmp as cache The cache is now under $prefix_dir/tmp
• Adding checksums and strategies for converting VM/ESA V2R4 ADCD and VSE/ESA V2R4 ADCD

Tickets and PRs for bugs or feature requests are very welcome, if anyone wants to tackle something that's on the TODO list just open a ticket and we'll set up a roadmap together