Thanks I am going to try the GTF trace

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> On May 3, 2016, at 9:02 AM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> Obviously I didn't fully put on my thinking cap yesterday when I mentioned 
> the LOCAL LOCK.
> 
> I was attempting to think of what might be causing the poster's perceived 
> condition of SRB #2 not appearing to run in the address space of the PAUSED 
> global SRB #1.
> Your comment seems to be backing my understanding that once SRB #1 did the 
> PAUSE, SRB #2, or any other qualifying unit of work, was free to run in the 
> address space subject to normal dispatching rules.
> 
> Michel,
> You may want to run this situation on a test machine and start a GTF trace 
> and see what is happening from that.  It should answer the question about if 
> the second SRB is being dispatched or not.
> 
> Chris Blaicher
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
> Behalf Of Peter Relson
> Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 7:51 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SRB dispatching question
> 
> I'll point out that the very fact that a global SRB paused very likely means 
> that you did not consider the SRB itself truly to be global. The system will 
> no longer treat it as such after the pause.
> 
> Chris mentioned the local lock. I'm not sure why. You can't pause a work unit 
> that is holding the local lock. Obviously some other running work unit could 
> hold the local lock and thus prevent an SRB scheduled with LLOCK=YES from 
> beginning.
> 
> In the scenario posed
> SRB 1 scheduled to address space A pauses SRB 2 was scheduled to address 
> space A (from anywhere) SRB 2 will run, according to normal dispatch priority 
> rules.
> 
> Peter Relson
> z/OS Core Technology Design
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