On 21 Jul 2010 14:48:39 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Clark Morris wrote: >> ... If I understand other postings and from what >> I recall from 20 years ago when I was an active systems programmer, >> FORCE ARM was a last resort... > >FORCE is a last resort. FORCE ARM is how you cancel a non-cancellable >address space.
Typical IBM backwardness. FORCE ... ARM is less dangerous than just FORCE ..., thus making a miskeying dangerous. It probably should be changed to FORCE ARM/NOARM with ARM being the default where FORCE NOARM would be the same as FORCE today. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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