Re: allow multiple threads in interactive job

On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 10:40:13 -0600, Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >From the V5R3 Information Center:

thanks Bruce.  

> ...Interactive and communication jobs do no provide multithread-capable
> support.

that stinks!  I was going to try and implement a message loop style of
programming in an interactive job.  The idea being to use the C record
io functions for display file i/o in a 2nd thread of the job.  A 3rd
thread might wait on an object lock.  or do a dlyjob. I was thinking
you could even use RCVJRNE to place a message on the message loop
queue when a record was added to a file.  All the threads then feed
their input to the data queue that the interactive job receives from
as its message loop.

Was not sure if I could cancel a display file read in the background
thread without using INVITE or not.

Too bad IBM places all these restrictions on their system.

thanks,

-Steve