At 10:04 -0500 on 09/29/2010, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Really
dumb IPL question:
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 22:26:29 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
Shutting down a Started Task can be done in the way other STCs are
controlled. ... you can just use the Modify (F) or STOP (P)
command . If MODIFY is good enough for TCP, TSO, etc, it should be
>good enough for your RYO STC. It sounds like those Ops/Automation
>types are brain dead and do not understand what they are doing.
MODIFY and STOP only work if the code is written to recognize them.
Some products are not coded to work with a STOP command. If not,
it is not the automation that is brain dead.
The assumption of my comment was the program was written to use STOP
or MODIFY to signal the task to terminate. The quote that I was
responding to (which was omitted from your reply) was to the effect
that it was against the Ops/Automation types rules/procedures to use
CANCEL (or STOP/MODIFY which use the same QEDIT interface) to signal
the terminate order. We are not taking about pulling the rug out from
under the task via FORCE here by sending a request for an orderly
shutdown using standard interfaces. Note that I may be wrong about
the ability to intercept the CANCEL and suppress it since you are
going to do an orderly shutdown by treating as a STOP.
The quote was:
Setting this up as a started task and then explaining to
Ops/Automation that the only way to stop it was to Cancel the
Started task was not fun (against their operational procedures) ....
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