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There is a TOKEN that represents a task but I don't think it's
4 bytes.  Check your pubs for TOKEN services.

Girish B Maraliga (girish@schism.tay1.dec.com) wrote:

: Hello.

: I have a question which may seem very silly to all you gurus out there
:  - please bear with me.

: I am writing a application which monitors (periodically checks) various
:  jobs running on a MVS (v4.3) system and pass the info back to a Unix box for
:  display. The tasks to be monitored can be TSO programs, started tasks, APPC
:  started programs, CICS transactions etc.

:  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.

:  Additional requirements of this 'identifier' are
:    - We should be able to check if the task is running given only this 'ID'
:    - It should be 4 byte integer
:    - In the long range, we should be able to stop jobs/tasks using this 'ID'

:  (Due to some difficulties, my application program is not designed to maintain
:   a list/table of task information like ASID etc, but has to receive this ID
:   from a Unix machine and check the status task)

:  So if some kind soul can point me in the right direction, by telling what the
:  Identifier should be and how to get it, I would be very thankful.

:  Thanks in advance.

: /Girish Maraliga

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: Girish B Maraliga            | Internet : maraliga@gnpike.enet.dec.com
: Lead Technical Consultant    | ObjectBroker(MVS,AS400), Digital Eqpt Corp.
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