Charles:
I worked on an MFT 18(?).??? and the "P" was there for several tasks
the initiators the writers (pre hasp) and the readers (Pre hasp).
If mrmory serves me and I am shaky here the P was usually done for
device address not the reader or writer .
We had a locally written started task that ran in p0 my memory does
not indicate where we did a p p0 or p name(this was around the time I
was getting out of the army and I wasn't paying attention as well as
I should have.
Ed
On Dec 4, 2012, at 10:24 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
The START command has been around a LOT longer than the STOP command
Really? Could be; I was a programmer, not a console operator, but that
surprises me.
I find evidence of a P command (at least for devices) going back to
MVT
here:
http://www.neurotica.com/wiki/TechInfo:OS:IBM_Mainframes:OS/
360_Installation
#Starting_the_OS.2F360_MVT_system
Charles
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you write:
I'm sure this has been asked and answered somewhere in the dusty
archives of this list, but I honestly couldn't figure out a way to
formulate a search for it that would return mostly useful
information....
Does anyone know the historical/technical reason for some
products, (at
our shop CA-Datacom and possibly SAS SHARe) requiring you to START a
task, to STOP their started task? I know it's ridiculous of me
but it
drives me nuts to have to start something when I want to stop
something
else.
I've written code of my own which handles the STOP and MODIFY
commands,
so I know that it's not extremely difficult; it's pretty well
documented in the manuals too if I recall. I wrote the code
years ago,
so it's not like the ability just became available, either.
So - anyone know why this particular technique is used? Is there
some
technical reason for it?
Tim et al, This is a pure WAG:
The START command has been around a LOT longer than the STOP
command, so if
A is running and you can't say STOP A, then you START B, B starts
running,
locates A, taps A on the shoulder, A recognizes this tap and ends,
B ends
normally.
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