IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 03/02/2006 09:53:34 AM:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/01/2006 > at 08:25 PM, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > >I wonder if there is some aspect of the "system task" other that > >being free of time constraints and requiring to be initiated by a > >START command which at least prefers a single step. > > Long ago, in a release far away, the attributes in the PPT were only > honored for single-step jobs. Back then there was no SMF timing for > system tasks. I suspect that despite the name SYST has nothing to do > with whether a started task is a system task, and only controls > timing. I would agree, as I am unaware of any concept of a "system task" in MVS, other than in the documentation for the PPT. Possibly that the terminolgy originated in an ancestor of MVS. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
