On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 2:15 AM Alan(GMAIL)Watthey <[email protected]> wrote:
> BPXWDYN is a Unix Service as far as I am concerned as it's part of z/OS > Unix System Services. Check out which manual it's documented in. I > suspect it's under the Unix FMID as well but I haven't checked that part. > > I consider anything that begins BPX to be z/OS Unix System Services but > I'm willing to be corrected on that one. I certainly haven't used them all. > > Just me, but I only think of something as a UNIX service if it requires that the TCB (?) running the program be "dubbed" as a UNIX process (dubbing creates process information to be created in the BPXOINIT(?) address space -- UNIX UID, current working directory, etc). The easiest way that I know of to see if a job/TCB/whatever is "dubbed" is to see if it shows up on the PS screen in SDSF. Using BPXWDYN in a regular batch program does not cause the job to be "dubbed". I will lay odds that it starts with BPX because the author is one of the main z/UNIX developers. -- People in sleeping bags are the soft tacos of the bear world. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
