Yes 😊I'm using 2.1 Waiting for the likes of Pete Relson to chime in
Thanks so much Sent from my iPhone > On Oct 16, 2015, at 10:58 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
