To be technical, /bin/sh isn't "_BPX_SHAREAS" aware. It uses spawn() rather than fork()/exec() in many cases. When using spawn(), _BPX_SHAREAS controls whether a local spawn is down.
The best documentation on _BPX_SHAREAS is in the z/OS Unix Assembler Callable Services Guide - under BPX1SPN. AFAIK, tcsh doesn't use spawn(), so it can't local spawn processes into the same AS. I don't think that this is explicityly documented...maybe open a ETR if you want confirmation. It sounds like your problem with /bin/sh is with terminfo/termcap setup ? If you have configured your default shell to be tcsh, you can run a batch job with COZBATCH using a login /bin/sh shell - // EXEC PGM=COZBATCH,PARM='//bin/sh -L' (first slash is LEOPT sep) //STDIN DD * ... Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> I use "Gnome Terminal" from my linux desktop with ssh for my z/OS shell sessions, and it works fine for me. I would love to have a modern bash port for z/OS, but without lots of porting work it would suffer the same problem as tcsh. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
