On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:58:22 -0400 Gary Weinhold <weinh...@dkl.com> wrote:
:>It was set up this way when we decided we had to add a PC to our product :>20 years ago. I believe the programmer was afraid that a customer could :>accidentally cancel the server started task and cause all running :>instances of our product to abend (which could include CICS and IMS/TM :>regions, batch jobs and a shared dataspace). He figured this technique :>would only prevent new instances of our product from starting and :>wouldn't be as big a problem for the customer to recover from. Set up a RESMGR in the server that sets a bit indicating not available. It is possible to get an 0D6 (or is it 0D7) should a thread be in the middle of the PC and get interrupted and then resume after the cancel completes but that would be extremely rare, -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
