Daniel,
I have not specifically validated the two patches myself for TK5.? However, I do know that Rob Prins is including those two patches pre-installed on the TK5 Update 2.? I do not know when Update 2 is scheduled to be released though.? You might ask him.
Im quite sure the patches would work on TK5, as the internals of TK5 haven't changed over TK4 in the affected areas.? What I am not sure about is if the installation JCL and control statements would work on TK5 due to changes in volsers, and/or other PTFs that may have been applied to JES2 that may cause one of the patches to fail in the SMP APPLY step.? Or, it could work fine.? Im referring to the ZBP0001 patch here.
The other one, the VMEXIT feature (to drop DIALed terminals), does not use SMP to install the feature and that is a simple assembly and link, and then easy modifications to SYS1.VTAMLST.
Regarding my prior post about the CP SET STB VR command, I forgot to mention that you need to have the STFIRST option in the directory entry for MVS in the CP directory. For example:
USER MVS ....
OPTION ECMODE REALTIMER BMX VIRT=REAL STFIRST
The STB VR command won't do anything if you do not specify STFIRST.? CP SET NOTRAN does not have a special consideration in this regard.? When you do a CP Q SET, it should look like this:
CP Q SET????????????????????????????????????????? ?
MSG ON , WNG ON , EMSG TEXT, ACNT ON , RUN OFF??? ?
LINEDIT ON , TIMER REAL, ISAM OFF, ECMODE ON????? ?
ASSIST ON SVC?? TMR? , PAGEX OFF, AUTOPOLL OFF??? ?
IMSG ON , SMSG OFF, AFFINITY NONE?? , NOTRANS ON? ?
STBYPASS VR???????????????????????????????????????
Note that NOTRANS and STBYPASS are the last two entries and that ASSIST is ON for SVC and TMR.
I always run MVS 3.8 as a guest of VM and I have done so for years.? It is the only way I run it.? It is a little slower yes, though I am not having the slowdowns you were reporting.? I accept the performance loss for the flexibility of being in a virtual machine, the control, and also being able to submit jobs and receive output at CMS. I don't run VM/CE however; I still use VM Sixpack 1.2.? That is not a statement against VM/CE, rather, I just have never switched over, preferring my system the way it is already set up.
Regards,
Bob
