TACL Reference Manual

Built-In Functions and Variables

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Built-In Function and Variable Descriptions

The remainder of this section lists built-in functions and variables, in alphabetic order.

#ABEND Built-In Function

Use #ABEND to request that a process terminate immediately; you can also specify

values for fields in the resulting process deletion message.

option

is any of these:

COMPLETIONCODE num

specifies the completion code to be returned in the process deletion message;

num is a signed integer from -32768 to +32767. Numbers from -32768 to -1

are reserved for use in the TACL software product. Numbers from 0 to 999 are

reserved for shared use by the TACL software product and the user. Numbers

from 1000 to 32767 are reserved for use by customers. See the Guardian

Procedure Calls Reference Manual for a list of defined completion codes.

ERROR

changes the behavior of #ABEND as described under Result on page 9-13.

SUBSYS ssid

specifies the subsystem for distributed systems management applications; see

the TACL Programming Guide for details on subsystem IDs.

TERMINATIONINFO num

specifies information about the termination; num is a signed integer in the

range -32768 to +32767.

\node-name

is the system where the process to be deleted resides.

$process-name

is the name of the process or process pair.

cpu,pin

is the CPU number and process number for the process.

#ABEND [ / option [ , option ] ... / ]

[ [\node-name.]{$process-name | cpu,pin } [ text ] ]