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.

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