On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:13:11 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 10:04 -0500 on 09/29/2010, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Really >dumb IPL question: > >>On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:26:29 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >> >>>Shutting down a Started Task can be done in the way other STCs are >>>controlled. ... you can just use the Modify (F) or STOP (P) >>>command >> >>MODIFY and STOP only work if the code is written to recognize them. >> > >The assumption of my comment was the program was written to use STOP >or MODIFY to signal the task to terminate.
I'm not sure that is a good assumption >The quote that I was >responding to (which was omitted from your reply) was to the effect >that it was against the Ops/Automation types rules/procedures to use >CANCEL (or STOP/MODIFY which use the same QEDIT interface) to signal >the terminate order. I think you've read too much into Peter Nuttall's post that you quoted. He did not say that it was against the operational procedures to use STOP or MODIFY. He said that it was against the procedures to use CANCEL. I read that as meaning that the program was not coded to recognize STOP or MODIFY. And, BTW, lest someone get the wrong impression from what you wrote above, STOP and MODIFY use the same "QEDIT interface", CANCEL does not. > >The quote was: > >>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) .... And perhaps the relevant phrase in Peter Nuttall's post is "the only way to stop it was to Cancel the Started task" -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
