yup, it's a stop command sometime for printers, lines, inits.. JES2.....
Carmen
On 2/3/2022 12:22 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
It's worse than that; What $P means depends on the operand; it is not alwayy
purge.
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Subject: Re: MVS PURGE command
On Thu, 3 Feb 2022 at 11:08, Radoslaw Skorupka<[email protected]> wrote:
I just found found the following OPERCMDS profile: MVS.PURGE.MSS
Current manual says it is for PURGE command. However another current
manual does not document such command.
Note, it is not JES2 command.
Q: what is it? Is it something related to IBM 3850 MSS?
That seems unlikely to me, just based on there being no overlap
between the time that the 3850 was supported and the time RACF had any
role in authorizing operator commands.
A long shot, but I wonder if it's a mistaken understanding of what the
abbreviation "P" is for. In z/OS and going back to OS/360 days, it's
short for STOP (because S was already the abbreviation for START). But
(as you hint at), HASP/JES2 used similar command abbreviations but
with sometimes different mappings, hence P=PURGE. But... In many place
the operations staff was casual about what the commands meant - so
very often one heard of "purging task/job x" meaning issuing a P
command. Is it possible such folk etymology made its way into RACF?
Tony H.
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