On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 08:03:16 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >> How does STOP work? > >From a programmer's point of view, it sets a flag and posts an ECB. > >> Is MODIFY similar? > >Yes, both are quite similar in how they work. Modify is a flag plus the text >of the command. AFAIR Stop is just a flag, but I might well be wrong and I >am too lazy to look it up right now. > Same ECB or different ECB? Or does the flag indicate whether the operation was STOP, MODIFY, or ... (What else?)
>z/OS "knows" whether a program has gone through the motions of telling z/OS >it was prepared to accept console commands. ... > May I assume that "telling" includes providing z/OS with the address of the ECB(s)? Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
