It all depends on what you want to do. In some cases you may not want to wait forever for a file that may never arrive. So you put the timer in. If on the other hand the vm is totally driven by the arrival of a RDR file, then there would be no reason to have a timer value.
-----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Schuh, Richard Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 3:25 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Best method And if you leave that RDR file in the queue without holding it, it will give you another interrupt immediately. Regards, Richard Schuh > -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens > Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2008 12:40 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Best method > > 2008/7/1 Huegel, Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > That's one reason why we put a timer in WAKEUP so we can go > recheck the RDR every so often. > > > > With WAKEUP (RDR, there is no need to add a timer interrupt too. > WAKEUP will present RC=4 when a RDR file is available. > > -- > Kris Buelens, > IBM Belgium, VM customer support > P.S. today at 16h15 I shut down my customer's last 2 VM > systems and waived goodbye to the people I worked with the > last years. For those who understand some French: for most > of them it propably was an "a Dieu", no an "au revoir". >
