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To join http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?IBMTCP-L go to the bottom of the webpage to join. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Donald Likens > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2014 2:02 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: How to cleanly shutdown a socket server? > > I have been struggling with this for a while... Cancel always works but I > don't think > that is clean. I just looked in the IP Socket Interface guide hoping it would > help but > the design noted there has a task receiving data forever. I do not have a > problem if > the socket is busy. I can always set a switch and terminate. My problem is > when the > socket is idle. It is waiting for input and does not know it is to shutdown. > > My most current idea is to setup a ESTAE to ignore SA03 abends and detach the > task. I have not tested this yet but it seems unclean to me (even if > externally it will > look clean). I have also thought about setting a timeout value but I am > concerned > about using this. If the socket times out, do I have to close and reopen the > socket? > How long do I wait before I timeout? Does this cause a lot of overhead? > > Have you created a socket server? Did you have a clean way of shutting it > down? > Please explain how. Thanks > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
