How would that help his subtasks if the parent task abends? I believe that was the OPs issue.
On Wed, 7 Sep 2011 11:42:59 -0500 Dave Day <david...@consolidated.net> wrote: :>Besides Rob's suggestion of another task, consider coding the estae routine :>such that you always retry. Never percolate the abend unless the SDWA is :>set with the no retry bit. Then, in your mainline code at the retry point, :>you take care of whatever you need to vis-a-vis the files. After doing :>that, terminate if that is what should be done. :> :> --Dave Day :>----- Original Message ----- :>From: "Donald Likens" <dlik...@infosecinc.com> :>Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main :>To: <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> :>Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2011 10:45 AM :>Subject: subtask recovery :> :> :>> In the "IP Sockets Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference" :>> IBM discusses data services task (DST). This uses sub-tasks to do I/O. :>> When I designed my program using DSTs I had a problem I could not resolve. :>> I have been informed by IBM that sub-tasks are suspended during an abend :>> and cannot be used. This means there is no way to close the files opened :>> by the sub-tasks in my estae routine. Has anyone come with a solution to :>> this problem? -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
