APAR status
Closed as fixed if next.
Error description
Whilst the overall behaviour is different between Windows and UNIX the problems caused by this are common to both platforms. If you check the userstatus in the job report section you would find it is truncated to 'f:' on both platforms. The difference in behaviour is caused by the difference in behaviour of the construct kill(0,0) on the two platforms, on windows this returns -1 and thus asserts the job being waited on has gone away (crashed). On UNIX it returns 0 thus the code thinks the child is still alive and waits for the correct termination code. The PID of zero comes about because the '\' characters in the user status make a mess of the returned jobinfo which has '\' separated fields. The obvious workaround is to not use the '\' character in the user status field
Local fix
do not use the \ backslash
Problem summary
**************************************************************** USERS AFFECTED: SERVER **************************************************************** PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: The user status for a job is not documented as having a restriction on the characters that can be used, however '\' is problematic as it is used to separate a number of entries in the status list returned from a repository call **************************************************************** RECOMMENDATION: Fixed in release 8.2 ****************************************************************
Problem conclusion
Temporary fix
Comments
APAR Information
APAR number
JR32318
Reported component name
WIS DATASTAGE
Reported component ID
5724Q36DS
Reported release
752
Status
CLOSED FIN
PE
NoPE
HIPER
NoHIPER
Special Attention
NoSpecatt
Submitted date
2009-03-11
Closed date
2009-03-12
Last modified date
2009-03-12
APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:
APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:
Fix information
Applicable component levels
R752 PSN
UP
R753 PSN
UP
R801 PSN
UP
R810 PSN
UP
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Document Information
Modified date:
12 March 2009