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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories USS
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 25, 2014

RELATED IDEAS

Provide option for dubbed processes to inherit environment from init process

Please provide options - a global default in BPXPRMxx and user level option in user's OMVS segment for a "blind dubbed" process to inherit its environment from the "init" process (PID 1).

Currently, an address space that is not started by USS Logon or fork or exec can "dub" and become a Unix process simply by using a Unix callable service (aka "blind dubbing"). When this happens, it does not inhert from (its ppid is not) the init process. It does not inherit the default environment from init as configured in /etc/init.options. Environment variables such as TZ, the umask etc then need to be configured for each and every dubbed process. How many customers are required to configure the TZ environment variable in dozens of individual jobs? It is silly beyond comprehension.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Feb 24, 2021

    .This item is not in our plans but is being kept in our backlog.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 26, 2014

    Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #59716 in product z/OS.

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