Welcome to the murky world... :-)
Off topic but are there usable start and stop timestamps for things running in BPXAS address spaces? I've wondered about z/OS Unix substeps and thingies but not had cause to dig too deep. (I know where I am with conventional batch jobs and steps when it comes to SMF - but I don't see many jobs with Unix in them.) Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 17 Sep 2021, at 00:18, Andrew Rowley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 17/09/2021 9:12 am, Joe Monk wrote: >> "These are not necessarily unique for z/OS unix work due to the reuse of >> the BPXAS initiators. Even if you include the timestamps, they are not >> granular enough to give uniqueness." >> >> Well you wouldnt use just those records for BPXAS ... there are others like >> 74? that are written for BPXAS... > > The BPXAS initiator is reused, which means that multiple unix processes > run with the same jobid. So job name, program name, step name, jobid and > even read time can be repeated in different units of work. > > -- > Andrew Rowley > Black Hill Software > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAINUnless > stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
