On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 21:05:15 +0000, Barkow, Eileen wrote: >Thanks again John. I will try it out. > >The problem is when a program is started from OMVS under a USERID and runs >under a different name, which makes it >difficult for someone to cancel the job or issue modify commands against it. >The system keeps appending numerical values to the USERID and you have to do a >DA userid* command to find what it is. >I just want to be able to display the actual JOBNAME to the console. > Ouch! Of course, fork() creates a new job (sort of) with a different job name (really).
How will this play with 8-character userids? There's no rule that JOBNAMEs must be prefixed with userid. How does cancelling the parent job affect its children? Might they continue running? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
