I know for a fact that DETACH causes (via some route) the ECB to be posted.
I always WAIT on the ATTACH ECB and it always works.

Whether that WAIT is superfluous or not is something I have no way of
testing.

I believe you (of course!) but the WAIT is harmless at worst so I think I
will leave it in place.

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Peter Relson
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2020 7:15 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: ESTAEX exit WAIT question

If I remember correctly, DETACH of a subtask does not return to the 
invoker until that task has completely terminated (and I mean completely 
-- all resmgrs have run, the TCB is freemained). If so, there is no reason 
to have an ECB to wait upon. In fact I think the ATTACH ECB is not even 
used once DETACH is done. (I'm hoping that my thought does not pertain 
only to the branch-entry DETACH that RTM does, but also pertains to the 
SVC-entry DETACH that you would be doing.)

If you want your recovery to
-- end the task
-- upon end, attach a new task
then
-- detach
-- attach

Peter Relson
z/OS Core TEchnology Design


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