Mainframe Pi: Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Mainframe

This lecture describes all the hardware that is required in this course to create a Mainframe Pi.

Apart from the hardware such as Raspberry Pi 3B+, mouse and keyboard, you will also require software such as c3270 in this course. All the software required for the creation of Mainframe Pi are explained in this lecture.

To boot Raspberry Pi for the first time you require to install an operating system on it. The NOOBS operating system can be installed easily on the SD card and inserted into the Raspberry Pi. The full procedure to install NOOBS on the SD card is explained in this lecture.

After NOOBS installation has finished, we can boot up our Raspberry Pi. The full procedure to boot up our Raspberry Pi for the first time is explained in this lecture.

After the first boot up of our Raspberry pi, we have to provide some final parameters to the system. These final settings on the Raspberry Pi is explained in detail in this lecture.

After your Raspberry Pi has booted up you can install MVS on it. MVS Turnkey is a free software. It can be installed on a Raspberry Pi using the Terminal. This lecture explains the MVS installation in detail.

c3270 is a Terminal emulator software. In Raspberry Pi you can install it using the Terminal. The full process of installing c3270 is explained in detail in this lecture.

After the installation of MVS is complete, we can now boot it up. The full procedure to boot up our MVS and Logging on to its TSO environment is explained in detail in this lecture.

This lecture explains in detail the procedure to logoff from the MVS and how to shutdown the MVS system.

VNC server can be used to connect to a Raspberry Pi remotely. To do this you have to enable VNC server on your Raspberry Pi and install a VNC viewer on your desktop. Then you can connect to Raspberry Pi from your desktop using the IP address of the Raspberry Pi. This lecture explains in detail the whole process to connect to raspberry Pi using VNC server in detail.

You can use a Raspberry Pi without any Monitor, Keyboard or a Mouse. Such a mode is called a Headless Mode. In this lecture you will learn about Headless mode in detail.

A file on a Mainframe is called a Dataset. We can use datasets to write our JCL or COBOL program. The whole procedure to allocate a new dataset on MVS is explained in detail in this lecture.

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