Gil,

I am with you and zMan what's so difficult about an orderly shutdown on OMVS 
and z/os address spaces..z/Pdt has vtamappl, everything shutdown fine...

Scott ford
www.identityforge.com

On Jul 22, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:23:36 -0400, zMan wrote:
>> 
>>> Some years ago, I suggested in MVS-OE that MVS shutdown should
>>> send SIGTERM to all dubbed processes so that processes coded to
>>> UNIX conventions could perform orderly shutdown.  The suggestion
>>> was not well received.
>> 
>> Can you elaborate? Why would orderly shutdown not be A Good Thing?
>> 
> "They" didn't say.  Too UNIXy for them.  But I'll conjecture:  Many address
> spaces get dubbed nowadays by incidental use of UNIX services such as
> TCP/IP.  The default action for SIGTERM if a process doesn't handle it
> is that the process is terminated.  This would be unwelcomed by a process
> that was waiting rather for a legacy MODIFY command to shut itself down.
> 
> -- gil
> 
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