> In fact MVS says "CANCEL COMMAND ACCEPTED", sets a bit in the > appropriate TCB and goes on with its work, supposing that the task will > respond neatly to this CANCEL bit, but guarantees nothing.
That is not correct. CANCEL does a POST of the CANCEL ECB, on which the initiator task is WAITing. The initiator task then does a CALLRTM TYPE=ABTERM of the jobstep task. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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