VM/370 job info

[javi-s]

Amazing job, thank you for this!

I have been spending some time with VM/370 CE as of late. As I find the ability to name PDFs based on the printed job info extremely useful, I made a few changes to support naming using the VM/370 job info and to better handle top page alignment after a form feed from VM/370.

I am happy to contribute the code if it can be useful, if you want I can share and you can take a look.

Thank you.

[racingmars]

Hi @javi-s,

Glad to hear you've been using virtual1403!

If you have some improvements in job handling from VM/370, I'd love to take a look, yes.

Thanks,
Matthew

[javi-s]

Hi,

I have placed the changes in a branch here: https://github.com/javi-s/virtual1403/tree/vm370

This is the commit: javi-s@3d5e12f

I can create a pull request if simpler for you to check out.

Thank you,
Javi

[racingmars]

Thank you @javi-s, at first glance this looks good!

For someone (me) who rarely uses VM... could you remind me how to print from VM? I think I need to do something like associate my virtual printer of my CMS user with a print class that ties it to the real printer?

[javi-s]

Thank you, @racingmars.

To print on VM/370 CE, this is what I normally do:

• Start the printer device. On hercules, I just type /start all in the hercules console to start all VM/370 devices.

  /start all
  /20:32:38 
  /20:32:38 RDR  00C STARTED   SYSTEM
  /20:32:38 PUN  00D STARTED   SYSTEM   CLASS = P      SEP
  /20:32:38 PRT  00E STARTED   SYSTEM   CLASS = A      SEP
  /20:32:38 PRT  00F STARTED   SYSTEM   CLASS = A      SEP
  

• If you want to associate the printer to a specific class, you can do e.g. CP SPOOL PRINT TO SYSTEM CLASS A. However, on VM/370 CE for the cmsuser to print there is no need to do this.
• Use the print command to print any file, e.g. print hello fortran