Gilmartin Stop bullying your erstwhile colleagues!
You can put everybody out of their misery, yourself especially, by doing on what Charles Mills is famous for pouring scorn - RT fine M: 2.3 Communicating with a program (EXTRACT, QEDIT) http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/iea2a8c0/2.3 Mason On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 11:02:26 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
