Thank you Ed, Now I know.
Regards, Claude Richbourg -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 3:20 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Question on *MASTER* address space. Richbourg, Claude wrote: > Okay, > > I've pondered this for awhile and now I would like to see why. > Would any of you explain this about the MASTER address space? > > Question: When I look at the DA screen in our input/output viewer (IOF), > it shows the *MASTER* system address space with an 'S00xxxx' task > number. > It has dispatching priority FF of course, but none of the other > 'privileged' SYSTEM address spaces have a 'S ' task number, even > though they are all in the SYSTEM service class/workload. > Those in SYSSTC service class have S00XXXX numbers as I would expect. > Same across all lpars. > > Why is that? > Because the SYSLOG task -- running in *MASTER* -- issued SSI 20 "REQUEST JOB ID". This was needed so it could allocate a sysout data set for the SYSLOG. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

