MPG pendant interface 7I96s

Since I was last asking for assistance, I opted to switch over to a 7I96s board. I am having issues getting a cheap MPG pendant to jog axes in the Axis GUI. I have confirmed that the encoder works as well as the dead-man switch allows the signals I've designated as axis selectors and step values to trigger appropriately. I have seen forum posts about joint vs axis jog being toggled through the use of homing. (joint vs teleop) I utilize the Home all button to zero out the display before attempting to jog any axis. Using Halshow, I am able to see the joint-select-(a-d) and joint-incr-(a-d) trigger as well as the axis-selected-count value count up and down. I used the PNC wizard to setup the pinouts and didn't see "Axis select" as an option but did have "Joint select" available. I assume, based on what I've read about the 2.9 update that this wouldn't be an issue as I'm just using a standard 3 axis cartesian XYZ setup with possible expansion to XYZA once I have more confidence in using Linux CNC to actually run my machine.
It's probably something overly simple like linking joints to axes in a different way than PNC did by default or just a need to add a switch to convince the machine that it's been homed.
I've attached the Hal and Ini files for review.