Use this command to start the program test vehicle (PTV) when it is running
in system test vehicle (STV) mode.
Requirements and Restrictions
- The TPF system must be in NORM state.
- When you run PTV in STV mode, only one test unit is allowed on a test unit
tape (TUT). However, a single test unit can span more than one TUT
tape.
- If the test unit that you want to run spans more than one TUT tape,
specify the BL parameter or the RUNID parameter to start PTV.
Format
- BLstart
- starts processing the TUT tape at the specified message block, where
start is the hexadecimal number of a message block.
- POSIT
- restarts PTV from the message block where it ended when PTV was
paused.
- Note:
- Never specify this parameter to restart PTV after a catastrophic
error.
- RUNID
- starts PTV from the beginning of the TUT tape.
- A
- starts PTV in asynchronous mode.
- B
- starts PTV in burst mode.
- number
- is the number of messages, from 1-9, to be maintained in the TPF
system in asynchronous mode or to be supplied in each burst.
- BLend
- pauses PTV at the specified message block on the TUT tape, where
end is the hexadecimal number of a message block. If you omit
this parameter, PTV continues until you enter the ZSTVS PAUSE or ZSTVS STOPT
command.
- Note:
- The value that you specify for BLend must be greater than the value
that you specify for BLstart.
Additional Information
None.
Examples
PTV is started in asynchronous mode in the following example. One
message is maintained by the TPF system.
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|User: ZSTVS START RUNID A1 |
| |
|System: COSK0079A 07.48.09 *CP* HPN MOUNT TUT TAPE FOR INPUT |
| |
|User: ZTMNT TUT 425 AI NL |
| |
|System: COTM0046I 07.49.01 TMNT HPN TAPE TUT MOUNTED ON DEVICE 425 |
| VSN *NONE* G0001 S0001 D38K NL NOBLK |
| BMS20002I 07.49.01 |
| RUNID LC001 A1L PH3 TEST MODE A1 |
| |
| PTVL0001I 07.50.27 LAST MESSAGE BLOCK PROCESSED BL 4 |
| END OF MESSAGES FROM TAPE STV NOW IDLE |
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
Related Information
See Program Test Vehicle and TPF Program Development Support
Reference for more information about PTV.