Managing operations

The z/OS UNIX element is designed to be continually available. This topic discusses tasks that are done by operators.

List of subtasks
Steps for ending a specified process
Ending threads
Planned shutdowns using F BPXOINIT,SHUTDOWN=...
Planned shutdowns using F OMVS,SHUTDOWN
Dynamically activating the z/OS UNIX component service items
Dynamically changing the BPXPRMxx parameter values
Dynamically switching to different BPXPRMxx members
Dynamically adding FILESYSTYPE statements in BPXPRMxx
Tracing events
Displaying the status of the kernel or process
Displaying the status of system-wide limits specified in BPXPRMxx
Taking a dump of the kernel and user processes
Recovering from a failure
Managing Interprocess Communication (IPC)