Those are OMVS "initiators", and as far as I can tell, there is no way to control them. OMVS starts as many as needed to run processes (at which point they temporarily change their name - which is why you don't see all of them in DA). Once they're idle for 30 minutes or so, they quit; resulting in a big heap of dead BPXAS laying around.
My solution was to make BPXAS a "started job", with the simple addition of MSGCLASS=Z (which is purged immediately at my shop). sas On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 5:29 PM Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > Humor me here. I assume this is basic system programming, but I don't > claim to be a sysprog. > > We have a Dallas system. Something in our usage patterns or something has > changed recently to where we end up with spool filled up with BPXAS jobs > and we eventually run out of JQEs which is not a Good Thing. > > Can someone tell me what BPXAS is, and more importantly, what to change in > the proc so that the jobs will go away rather than hanging out in spool > until I manually purge them. > > When I do an ST I see a bunch of them running, and a whole bunch in Print, > but I don't see them when I do a DA. > > Here's a typical example: > > 09.22.31 STC01149 ---- MONDAY, 10 APR 2023 ---- > > 09.22.31 STC01149 $HASP373 BPXAS STARTED > > 09.22.31 STC01149 BPXP024I BPXAS INITIATOR STARTED ON BEHALF OF JOB SSHD4 > RUNNING IN ASID 0042 > 1 //BPXAS JOB MSGLEVEL=1 > STC01149 > 2 //BPXAS EXEC BPXAS,GETWORK=BPXPRJSR > > > XX*-------------------------------------------------------------------- > 00050000 > 3 XXIEFPROC EXEC > PGM=IEFIIC,DPRTY=12,PARM=',,&GETWORK,BPXPRJRW' 00100000 > > XX********************************************************************/ > 00200000 > XX* > */ 00250000 > XX*01* PROCEDURE NAME : BPXAS > */ 00300000 > XX* > */ 00550000 > XX*01* FUNCTION: Used to start the MVS initiator > */ 00600000 > XX* > */ 00650000 > XX*01* COMPONENT: SC1B6 (Initiator) > */ 00700000 > XX* > */ 00800000 > XX*01* DISTRIBUTION LIBRARY: SYS1.PROCLIB > */ 00850000 > > XX********************************************************************/ > 01850000 > IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - > PGM=IEFIIC,DPRTY=12,PARM=',,BPXPRJSR,BPXPRJRW' > STMT NO. MESSAGE > > 2 IEFC001I PROCEDURE BPXAS WAS EXPANDED USING SYSTEM LIBRARY > SYS1.PROCLIB > IEFA111I BPXAS IS USING THE FOLLOWING JOB RELATED SETTINGS: > > SWA=ABOVE,TIOT SIZE=32K,DSENQSHR=DISALLOW,GDGBIAS=JOB > > ******************************** BOTTOM OF DATA > ************************************************ > > Thanks, > Charles > Not a Systems Programmer > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
