I wish I could recall the exact circumstances, but it was probably a conversation at SHARE: when the ARM keyword was added to FORCE, any actual 'recovery manager' was still a gleam in some developer's eye. In the absence of a system provided recovery manager, 'ARM' was simply a protective flag that offered one last chance to avoid destructive shutdown of a vital system task. Protection was pretty flimsy in that the response to FORCE without 'ARM' was simply the instruction to reissue the command with 'ARM'. Not exactly a concrete barrier.
Automatic Restart Manager as we know it today was never tied to the FORCE command, so the 'ARM' keyword remains a relic with as much (or little) protection as it had originally. Plus grist for an extended Friday conversation on IBM MAIN. . . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Edward Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 09/23/2011 12:32 PM Subject: Re: FORCE ARM Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> On 9/23/2011 10:38 AM, Phil Smith III wrote: > So I'm confused. We don't really know what it stands for? Apparently, since the meaning of ARM is not explicitly documented anywhere, that information found its way to the dustbin of history. :-( -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
