I used CA-OPS/MVS to create a SLEEP command. It just simplifies doing a "E jobname,QUIESCE". And WAKEUP does a "E jobname,RESUME". I was vetoed about doing an automatic SLEEP on an "estimated lines exceeded" message.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:01 PM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote: > Instead of ABENDing a piece of work (pun intended) that is spewing an > infinite output or using an infinite amount of some resource, how about > putting it into some kind of suspended status for later resolution by the > submitter, the developer, an operator manager, etc.? The downside is that > sooner or later many address spaces could be tied up with suspended pieces > of work that exceeded all known limits and have yet to be decided upon as > to how to handle, since the developer is on vacation or the dog ate the > source code . But that is preferable to letting them spew away forever or > be ABENDed when only one microsecond away from a normal end. Maybe some > committee could vote on what to do with the suspended spewer(s). > > > > Just an idea. > > Bill Fairchild > Franklin, TN > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:37:08 AM > Subject: Re: Storage paradigm [was: RE: Data volumes] > > In > <985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c23194bd...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>, > on 06/10/2013 > at 02:46 PM, "Farley, Peter x23353" <[email protected]> > said: > > >There *are* non-theoretical solutions to "runaway" file output. The > >*ix system model of using "disk quotas" per "user" makes it entirely > >possible to imagine z/OS "application" users with "reasonable" disk > >quotas specific to the application (i.e., not by job but by suite of > >jobs). > > Mommy, make it go away. An out of control job would kill unrelated > work. Per file quotas might be workable, but would lead to the same > types of outcry as space specification: "I don't know how much output > the job will create." > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > -- This is a test of the Emergency Broadcast System. If this had been an actual emergency, do you really think we'd stick around to tell you? Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
