Like most UNIX stuff, there's a setting in the RACF OMVS segment used
to limit CPU time. See CPUTIMEMAX.


In article <caajsdjhmwujebqm2gs+ecbdsb49owg1vxvaqucat1h2p9ql...@mail.gmail.com> 
you wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Terry Sambrooks
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I might be wrong but the idle-time limit (Job Wait Time(JWT)) is surely a
> > system wide limit set within SMFPRMnn and as such applies to both Batch and
> > STCs, hence many installations code TIME=1440 on the EXEC within the STC
> > procedure.

> I think you are right. I know that I always code TIME=NOLIMIT or 1440
> in all STCs. Even ones that I know are short lived. I am unsure if it
> applies to a UNIX address space which comes about via a fork(). I
> think that fork() forces the equivalent of TIME=1440 on every address
> space which it creates. But I could be wrong.

> >
> > Similarly the doesn't the PPT entry applu equally to a program whether it is
> > started via an STC or Batch. CICS (DFHSIP) has PPT entries but can be
> > started either as an STC or a Batch job are we saying that if CICS is
> > started via Batch, as some installations do, that the PPT entry is not
> > relevant.

> Sorry about the PPT stuff. I was remembering the SYST entry in the
> PPT. That one parameter only applies when the program is running in a
> "single step STC".

> >
> > Kind Regards - Terry
> >
> > Director
> > KMS-IT Limited

> -- 
> There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people!
> Genghis Khan

> Maranatha! <><
> John McKown

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