I've always been told that WTORs are a terrible way to "wait for a command" for the reason you describe. That's what MODIFY is for.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP - SPLXM Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 12:05 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Really dumb IPL question "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9...@panix.com> wrote in message news:<p06240808c8c85301d...@[192.168.1.11]>... > At 16:03 +0200 on 09/28/2010, Peter Nuttall wrote about Re: Really > dumb IPL question: > > >Setting this up as a > >started task and then explaining to Ops/Automation that the only way to > >stop it was to Cancel the Started task was not fun (against their > >operational procedures) .... > > Shutting down a Started Task can be done in the way other STCs are > controlled. You can issue a WTOR which allows the request to shut > down to be sent or you can just use the Modify (F) or STOP (P) > command . If MODIFY is good enough for TCP, TSO, etc, it should be > good enough for your RYO STC. It sounds like those Ops/Automation > types are brain dead and do not understand what they are doing. > I would strongly discourage WTORs for this. If you have a number of those tasks on a number of systems in your sysplex, the WTORs will fill an entire screen, just wasting space until you going to reply to it 2 months from now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
