>> >> >> >You'd need to count the number of idle BPXASs and decide then >> >if and how many to "create". Idle ones are those which show >> >up as "BPXAS" in a D A,BPXAS. Haven't thought about how to >> >get that information in the keep-alive program, I admit. >> >> And Johns suggestion to use modify.... >> >> There goes the 'simple fork() program'! :-) >> >> All good points, I'll keep them in mind. >> >> Best regards, Barbara >> -- > >FSVO "simple". I consider using the STOP and MODIFY commands to be >simple. In a UNIX program, they are even simpler due to the use of the >__console2 (BPX1CCS) routines. > >--
I would never consider any of this except as a last resort. And even then I wouldn't want to support it. Who would want to maintain all that bloat-ware. Barbara, can't you convince whomever needs to be convinced that SYSSTC should be tried? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
