On Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:40:51 GMT, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Since IBM supply's an SSI DELETE Command i would think IBM could provide an > IEFSSI REQUEST=DELETE macro to do the same function If the subsystem has the ability to issue IEFSSI REQUEST=DELETE (in other words, it has things like proper recovery and can detect a situation where it is a good idea to delete itself), then I think it can do everything that it needs to in order to clean up after itself without additional SSI function - it can free any resources it obtained, disable function routines, etc. There's not really a functional reason for a subsystem to need to go through a new IEFSSI REQUEST=DELETE service. The operator command was really intended to deal with the scenarios where the subsystem doesn't know that it can delete or disable itself - for example, a storage overlay damaged the SSI control blocks or something like that - although it's not limited to that use case. Scott Ballentine ([email protected]) z/OS MVS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
