>>"however some of the giant brains in some customer sites will still wail and >>gnash their teeth at you." >> > It is astonishing how often this happens - as if asking for a started task is > somehow akin to demanding the first-born child.
Chris may have refered to the fact that this is an address space that 'just' sits there and owns a PC and does who-knows-what-we-don't-know to the system, especially when it crashes. On the other hand, an address space that just sists there and does nothing always is suspicious. Not to mention that it causes problems when you least expect them. Have you ever thought what needs to be done to get a new address space established? RACF definitions, WLM definitions (and don't scream about bad performance if you forget to tell me that it *should* run in SYSSTC!), Automation definitions, not to mention that this needs to get done on test, development and in production .... And then go and try to get the answers to 'which service class should this run in?' or 'What are the parents of this address space?' (in other words: Which address spaces does this thing need to run successfully?) out of whoever has to install a new address space! In some cases they don't know and the docs don't mention this, either. Yes, getting me to establish a new address space (especially one that appears to sit around around and does nothing or - worse - that has feet in OMVS) is worse than stealing my firstborn! :-) Best regards, Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
