I am running Kevin Leonard's Turnkey MVT under VM/SP 5 and I've run into a couple issues I'm hoping someone here may be able to help me with.
1. VM sends EOF to the reader on input
When I am running MVT by itself, with no HASP or ASP running, I can start a reader and read job streams punched to the VM from other VM users.? However, after every job stream is read, VM returns an EOF and the reader task is closed and has to be restarted.? This is what I would expect if it was reading from a real 2540 and the operator had pressed the EOF button along with START.? Hercules has the "intrq" configuration option for the reader that causes it to return an intervention required as opposed to end of file after the last card is read (i.e. no EOF button press).? Is there anything in VM to do something similar?? I haven't found anything in the manuals or help text yet, but if there is, this would allow me to submit multiple jobs without having to restart the reader task every time.
2. Clock issues in VM
When I start MVT natively in Hercules with "YROFFSET -28" in the configuration, the clock is set to today's date in 1995 and passed to MVT during IPL.? However, when I start MVT under VM, I get an IEE116A message, saying the TOD clock is invalid.? I used the YROFFSET -28 command to reset the date back to 1995 in VM and that works for VM, but I still have clock problems with MVT.? Is there is a technique I can use in VM to set the date back for a single virtual machine, without affecting VM/SP itself?? If I can do that, I could run VM/SP with accurate dates and still be able to work on the date issue in MVT.
FYI, here is my USER DIRECTORY entry for MVT, based on a sample in the "Operating Systems in a Virtual Machine" manual for SP 3:
USER JS24 JS24 8M 8M G???????????????????????? ?
?IPL 150?????????????????????????????????????? ?
?ACCOUNT JS24 JS24???????????????????????????? ?
?OPTION REALTIMER ISAM BMX CPUID 011124 VCUNOSHR
?CONSOLE 002 3215 T OPERATOR?????????????????? ?
* Unit Record devices????????????????????????? ?
?SPOOL?? 00C 2540 READER *???????????????????? ?
?SPOOL?? 00D 2540 PUNCH B????????????????????? ?
?SPOOL?? 00E 1403 A??????????????????????????? ?
?SPOOL?? 00F 1403 A??????????????????????????? ?
?SPOOL?? 11E 1403 A??????????????????????????? ?
?SPOOL?? 11F 1403 A??????????????????????????? ?
?SPOOL?? 30E 1403 A??????????????????????????? ?
?SPOOL?? 30F 1403 A??????????????????????????? ?
* Consoles???????????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 010 0C8????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 014 0C9????????????????????????????? ?
* TSO Terminals (3)??????????????????????????? ?
?SPECIAL 0C0 3270????????????????????????????? ?
?SPECIAL 0C1 3270????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 3C0 0CA????????????????????????????? ?
* DASD???????????????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 130 130????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 150 150????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 151 151????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 152 152????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 154 154????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 158 158????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 159 159????????????????????????????? ?
?DEDICATE 250 15A????????????????????????????? ?
Thanks for any help you can provide!
