>[snip]..., or the 'need' to have the abilty to have beyond the >limit of concurrent processes set forth by MAXPROC(USER/SYS)....
If this product will be serving a lot of users in parallel, it will nees a lot of processes or threads in parallel. Depending on what those "tasks" are going to do and how the programmer chose to implement this in the code, the server will need a number of processes or threads. Either PROCUSERMAX or THREADSMAX will have to be set correspondingly. This alone is not strange. You need to think about how many concurrent user "tasks" your system can cope with and how you can limit this number. If the server tries to go beyond the limit it may have code to deal with this situation, it may seem not to work or it may simply abend (JAVA is known to stupidly abend with S0C4 if it runs ouit of virtual memory). Take this into consideration when choosing the maximum to set. Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html