It used to be common to issue a bogus START to force allocation processing. I would be surprised if there weren't a lot of very short started tasks in use.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Rupert Reynolds <rreyno...@cix.co.uk> Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2020 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job? Most people I mention it to are surprised, and they expect it keep running until a modiFy or stoP tells it otherwise. That's the reason I mentioned it :-) Roops On Thu., Nov. 19, 2020, 14:22 Jeremy Nicoll, <jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020, at 14:12, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > Off the cuff, I'm pretty sure it runs as an STC, but one that doesn't do > > the things you'd normally expect an STC to do. > > There's nothing that an STC is "normally expected to do". Some run for > ages, but some don't. The significant point is that they start immediately > (rather than waiting for an initiator), and they tend to do system-y things > rather than user or batch-suite ones. > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
