Richard Barker writes:
>JOBABORT is very annoying as the job still needs resource to be able to
>abort.  We used to use a trick in Glance to move the queue of the job and
>then it would get resource and abort, but since Glance is no longer
included
>in MPE/iX, we can't do it.

The reason ABORTJOB requires resources is that it does an orderly shutdown
of the process, properly closing files, etc.  That is one of the reliability
features of MPE.  Aborting a job will not physically damage your database,
for instance.  Glance was never part of FOS.  It is a product which is still
available.

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