On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:59 AM, saul anthony babonas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Years ago when my then employer started using the OMVS technology the ESM > was CA TOP SECRET. Processes failed because the inherited user did not have > access to the STC "facility". TS allows you to control the ability to > initiate a started task. Upon some head scratching analysis "holy cow, this > stuff coming from the dark side uses mini STCS to do their thing." > So we had to allow any user who did OMVS processes the ability to initiate > a started task. > I have long since forgotten which processes (oh, like I ever knew....) > become started tasks. We figured all of them but never tested in order to > be positive. > Wish I would have learned better..... > > A UNIX process is usually started via a fork() or spawn() service. The closest that I can think of is if you use JES2 WLM initiators and do a $SJ command to which causes JES2 to start a new WLM initiator and select the given job. What the fork() does is try to find an "idle" BPXAS "initiator". If there is one, it tells that to run the UNIX work. If there is not an idle BPXAS started task, the UNIX kernel will do an internal start of it and force it to run the new process. When the fork()'d process terminates, the BPXAS "initiator" will stay around for some period of time waiting for more work. If it does not get any work, it will "time out" and terminate. I call it an initiator because it really is running the initiator program - IEFIIC - but with a special PARM= value. -- "Pessimism is a admirable quality in an engineer. Pessimistic people check their work three times, because they're sure that something won't be right. Optimistic people check once, trust in Solis-de to keep the ship safe, then blow everyone up." "I think you're mistaking the word optimistic for inept." "They've got a similar ring to my ear." >From "Star Nomad" by Lindsay Buroker: Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
