On Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:39:18 +0100, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) wrote: >>I refused to design a WLM policy to address anomalous behavior. > >z/OS UNIX was nothing but anomalous behaviour in the eyes of z/OS MVS, >but z/OS UNIX (MVS OpenEdition with maiden-name) married-in and they >finally managed to respect and support each other ;-) > I suspect that chief among the perceived "anomalous behavior" is perfectly conventional UNIX behavior: whereas when a parent MVS task terminates, its children ABEND out of grief, when a parent UNIX process terminates, its children are simply adopted by their grandparent. This is venerable, conventional, and useful UNIX behavior.
The perception of anomaly may be magnified to a programmer who is accustomed to running interactive z/OS UNIX only from the TSO OMVS command. In that case, the parent is the user's TSO session. However, if the user runs a session with telnet/rlogin/ssh etc. the only parent is the network daemon. The behavior is as designed; the flaw is in WLM or its policies. The admins needed to repair those rather than stubbornly whining about imagined flaws in z/OS UNIX. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
