FORCE ARM is pretty much just an standard MVS CANCEL that has been prefixed by some bit-twiddling (or bit-ignoring) to enable CANCEL to work against address spaces that are marked non-cancel , and task-level recovery routines and task-level resource managers for the ASID receive control as usual.
FORCE *without* ARM results internally to CALLRTM TYPE=MEMTERM which will bypass task-level recovery routines and resource managers (whilst still allowing address space level resource manager to get control). Bearing all this in mind, I have always believed that ARM stood for "Allow Recovery Management" or "Allow Resource Managers". I think it is just a happy coincidence or developer humour that "forcing someone's arm" is a saying in English. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 275 Grove Street * Newton, MA 02466-2272 * USA Tel: +1.617.614.2305 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rocketsoftware.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shane Sent: 23 September 2011 08:36 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FORCE ARM On Fri, 23 Sep 2011 09:42:04 +0930 Anthony Thompson wrote: > ARM means Automatic Restart Management. Nope, not in this context. FORCE,ARM would pre-date that by quite a bit I would reckon. Perhaps everyone should heed Kees suggestion. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
