Re: Need to locate unique task ID in MVS

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From: A. Grant
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 1995 18:53

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Girish B Maraliga (girish@schism.tay1.dec.com) wrote:
>  Is there any data (similar to 'pid' in UNIX) available from the system,
>  which uniques identifies a task (some of our jobs are multi-tasking) ?
>  One solution we have thought is a combination of ASID and a pointer to 
>  TCB.  This is not satisfactory as a task which starts after the previous 
>  one, can be assigned the same TCB ptr.

Yes but you can detect when the TCB pointer stops being valid,
by using a subsystem end-of-task exit.  You can delete anything
'owned' by your client tasks (e.g. an entry in a table, or a 
control block) so that reusing the TCB address appears as a 
fresh client.  Is this enough?

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