>If this was for an inbound FTP session, do you have the FTP server configured >to run as IBMUSER? Not that I can see. None of the parms that ftpd is configured with (that I can find) mentions the word IBMUSER. It is possible that something is configured somewhere in an HFS/zFS that I wouldn't have a clue how to find. But on the other hand - chances are that nobody else would have configured that, either. I also hope that IBM does not deliver an ADCD system with IBMUSER configures as default user.
> Let's assume you start your TSO session (your ID is BARBARA), then do > something with Z/OS UNIX that starts a new UNIX *non-local* process. A simple 'tso ishell' will start two BPXASs: BPXP024I BPXAS INITIATOR STARTED ON BEHALF OF JOB BARBARA RUNNING IN ASID 0030 BPXP024I BPXAS INITIATOR STARTED ON BEHALF OF JOB BARBARA1 RUNNING IN ASID 001E x'30' is my TSO userid, and asid x'1E' is so short-lived that it is gone (without a trace, no BPXAS, no nothing) at the time I look at the log. According to what you wrote, I *should* see at least one BPXAS being idle (in asid x'1E'). There is no asid x'1E'. The SDSF ps display shows two processes in asid x'30' - in my TSO asid, one for EXEC and the other for /bin/fomfuish. > Sometime later, your non-local process ends; the BPXAS becomes idle. You can > again see it as BPXAS in SDSF and you can read message BPXP024I saying it was > started for parent BARBARA. Once I leave ishell, the two processes are gone. No message in syslog. No idle BPXAS anywhere. I must be missing something. Just for fun, I also ftp'd into the system up to providing the password. No message at all, no BPXAS. All I have is now another address space with my TSO userid/jobname (but as an STC) showing up as waiting in /usr/sbin/ftpdns. Is there a magic command that I am unaware of that would show me idle BPXASs, provided they exist?!? > Sometime later, Foo's non-local process ends; the BPXAS becomes idle again. > You can again see it as BPXAS in SDSF and you can still read message BPXP024I > saying it was started for parent BARBARA. I used my second TSO userid to log on and go into ishell. I see the same two processes, but this time around no BPXAS got started. At least there wasn't any message. > You can imagine that thousands and thousands of processes have been started > and ended during that working day. In my old job, we used to have SMF exits (IEFACTRT and IEFUJI) that produced a message when an asid was started and when a jobstep was terminating. On the systems where OMVS work was running we suppressed those messages from hardcopy log for the known 'offenders' - pages and pages of these messages, but no meaningful content in hardcopy log anymore. I am inclined to write a similar exit just to see when soemthing starts and ends and in which address space. I hate flying blind. >Isn't IBMUSER a userid defined on precustomized z/OS systems like the ADCD >systems? I bet someone was logged into TSO as IBMUSER, then did some UNIX >work. Later that other colleague did an ftp and his process was hosted by the >BPXAS that previously has been started on behalf of IBMUSER. Yes, IBMUSER is unfortunately widely used on ADCD systems. According to what you described in your other post, we should *not* see someone else under a BPXP024 message if the BPXAS was idle. So it still doesn't make sense to me. But then, OMVS/Unix never really made sense to me. Barbara ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
