In <listserv%201001271136391298.0...@bama.ua.edu>, on 01/27/2010 at 11:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>Gee, you do I/O, you wait Who R U? In CICS you're supposed to use CICS services for I/O, not to do your own in the main CICS task. One of those services is to run code in a separate subtask so that you are allowed to do things directly that would otherwise be prohibited. > I suppose CICS might bypass access methods >and do STARTIO directly Suppose what you want, but CICS was handling this before there was a STARTIO. Why not instead suppose that the authors of CICS have heard of ATTACH et al? What has changed is that there is now a mechanism for programmers who want to do a wait to do it in a subtask. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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