On Wed, 5 Dec 2012 14:11:49 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >... implying that TSO is TM'ing the CIB on the way by, not doing a WAIT >ECBLIST on the ECB and the terminal. > I could imagine an ISPF/TSO of the future doing a WAIT always on the communication ECB and additionally on the terminal when expecting input. When the communication ECB is posted it should read the entire screen and pop up a window saying such as "System shutdown in 3 minutes." (Where would it get that information?) The programmer could dismiss the message and refresh the screen with PA2; SAVE; and logoff cleanly.
(We shut down our lab systems frequently.) This would put ISPF technically ahead of e.g. Ubuntu Linux, which displays a shutdown mesage on serial PTYs but nothing on the graphic desktop at large. SIGTERM simply blows away the Unity window manager. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
