John McKown wrote: > I guess I had a major memory failure. I got into the books and you are > correct. Even a global SRB is scheduled into an address space. It's just > that global SRBs are dispatched before address spaces. > > I could have sworn that z/OS (MVS) had _something_ which did not run in > an address space. > > And the books all seem to say that the program needs to be in globally > addressable storage. Which seems strange to me if it an SRB runs in the > context of an address space, why can't the code be in only that address > space? > > I eagerly await being enlightened by the more knowledgeable of our > members.
There are times when you need to run code an address space to do something requiring PASN=HASN, but it is not convenient to load code in that address space's private space. Regards, Henry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
