Dated 11 January 2009, Jay Maynard has announced version 3.06 of hercules. Hercules is an IBM mainframe emulator able to run different OSes from this manufacturer, including OS/360, VM/370, MVS and z/OS. Installing this new version is recommended (for those who have the previous version installed) and the following novelties are included:
- Integrated 3270 (SYSG) console support (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger)
- HMC DVD-RAM read/write support (Jan Jaeger)
- 64-bit native version now supported on Mac OS X (Jay Maynard)
- Ability to specify IFL, zIIP, and zAAP engine types (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger, Ivan Warren)
- Console-like message handling (David «Fish» Trout, Bernard van der Helm)
- Tape automount CCW support (David «Fish» Trout)
- CKD Locate Record Extended CCW (Greg Smith)
- Support for FLEX-ES FakeTape tape images (David «Fish» Trout; FLEX-ES and FakeTape are trademarks of Fundamental Software, Inc.)
- More complete 3490 and 3590 tape support (David «Fish» Trout)
- Solaris build support (Jeff Savit)
- FreeBSD build support (Bjoern A. Zeeb)
- Panel enhancements:
- Display virtual storage in primary, secondary, and home space(Paul Leisy)
- Display and modify PSW fields by panel command (Roger Bowler)
- Modify control registers by panel command (Roger Bowler)
- Specify IPL parameter by PARM operand (Ivan Warren)
- New panel commands: automount, cmdtgt, ctc, herc, msghld, pscp, scp, sfk (David «Fish» Trout, Bernard van der Helm)
- LEGACYSENSEID configuration statement (Ivan Warren)
- New instruction feature support (introduced with System z10):
- Parsing-Enhancement Facility (Bernard van der Helm)
- Message-Security-Assist Extension 2 (Bernard van der Helm)
- General-Instructions-Extension Facility (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger)
- Execute-Extensions Facility (Bernard van der Helm)
- Move-with-Optional-Specifications Facility (Roger Bowler)
- Compare-and-Swap-and-Store Facility 2 (Ivan Warren)
- Many emulation fixes (Roger Bowler, Jan Jaeger, Ivan Warren, David «Fish» Trout, Greg Smith, Paul Leisy, Jay Maynard, Bernard van derHelm, Kevin Leonard, Tony Harminc)