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Status Not under consideration
Workspace IBM i
Categories Core OS
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 2, 2020

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spawn() - Don't check "max active" of job queue and controlled end of subsystem for spawn() jobs (BCI)

Spawn jobs (BCI) are handled like normal submitted jobs. This mean that the current job queue needs to have enough "max active jobs" left to start a BCI job.

In my eyes the spwan() mechanism should always starts the requested jobs and ignore the "max active jobs" setting of the current job queue, because the spawn jobs are necessary parts/resources of the current running program/job. Because the OS has already checked and allowed the execution of the program, the program/job should then get all needed resources and no additional check against the job queue should be done anymore.

The second problem is, if a subsystem ends controlled it's not possible to start a spwan() job anymore. So the program can't finish its current work and stops with an exception instead of ending normally.


Use Case:

The best way for use is to call AIX/PASE functions like gzip, zip or sftp from RPG with spawn().
We are creating the BCI jobs only if they are needed and they end automatically after work is done.

- It's not possible to start such child processes on a job queues which allows only one job.
- If a job queue is used by different jobs parallel, it could happen that the job queue is temporally full so the program fails because spwan() is not possible
- In case of "end subsystem controlled" the program can not finish work, because spwan() is not possible anymore.


Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    |     Apr 20, 2020

    Batch immediate jobs do not use a job queue, so the Max active jobs on the jobq does not apply to spawned jobs (BCI). However, the MAXJOBS on the subsystem description does apply to spawned jobs. Perhaps this is the limit you are experiencing. As for not allowing new jobs to start when the subsystem is ending, this may be an undesirable change in some environments, as well as an incompatible change. There may be other options you can use, such as iexits/cancel handlers to allow for proper cleanup.

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