"John Clogg" <[log in to unmask]> wrote
> 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.

Why not just use ALTPROC to bump the queue of the process.

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