Well, the URL that I'm reading is https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieaa800/chooch.htm?lang=en
I do see what you're reading. It's under the "Pause, Release, Transfer" column, row 4. Which says: "An authorized caller can pause and release any task or SRB in the system." Please confirm that you want is program "A" to be able to pause "any task or SRB" in the system (same or different address space) without any coding in the target. Oh, you might want to say what release of z/OS you're using too. I take it you interpret "An authorized caller can pause and release any task or SRB in the system." as meaning "An authorized caller can use the pause service to pause any _other_ task or SRB in the system". From reading the other documentation ( https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieaa200/ieavpse.htm?lang=en "Call Pause to make the current task or SRB nondispatchable" ) I interpret this to mean that an authorized user can allocate a PE in such a way as to allow that PE to be used by any task or SRB to suspend itself. And that any _other_ task or SRB in the system can then use that same PE to resume the paused task or SRB. I guess what I'm saying, at least until someone corrects me, is that the sentence is either too ambiguous or just down right wrong. I don't see a way for program "A" to cause some other "task of SRB" to be suspended (or paused) without the target "task or SRB" doing something. IIRC, what you want is something like CALLRTM (which abends any task or SRB in the system), but which just "stops" it instead of abending it. I must now bow out to those more knowledgeable than I about the internals. If this were _my_ need, my approach would be to schedule an SRB into the address space which would schedule a CIRB which would do a SUSPEND RB=PREVIOUS. Then something later would need to schedule an SRB into the address space which would do a RESUME TCB=,RETURN=N to allow the suspended work to continue. -- Schrodinger's backup: The condition of any backup is unknown until a restore is attempted. Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
