NEVERUSED

The task variable being interrogated has never been used in a process initiation statement, or has been reinitialized since it was last used. Refer to Preparing a Task Variable for Reuse later in this section.

SCHEDULED

A process initiation statement has been executed, but the system is delaying initiation of the process. For further information, refer to Preventing Process Scheduling later in this section.

ACTIVE

Process execution is proceeding normally. In the Y command output, this status is expressed through any of several more specific values, which are described under Y (Status Interrogate) Stack States later in this section.

SUSPENDED

The process is waiting on an event that might require operator intervention. For example, the process might be trying to open a tape file, and the operator might need to mount the appropriate tape on a drive. Or the process might have executed an ACCEPT statement, which requires a response from an operator. For further information, refer to the discussion of responding to waiting entries in the System Operations Guide.

FROZEN

The process is a frozen server library process. It might be a permanent or temporary library. For information about library processes, refer to Using Libraries.

GOINGAWAY

You can assign this value to a frozen server library process to cause it to resume execution as soon as possible. For details, refer to Thawing a Library later in this section.

BADINITIATE

An unsuccessful attempt was made to initiate the process. Process initiation can fail, for example, if the specified object code file is missing or if the object code file expects different parameters than are passed by the initiator. Note that BADINITIATE is only one of the terminations that can cause the WFL task state of ABORTED to return a value of TRUE. See the following description of TERMINATED.

TERMINATED

The process initiated successfully and later terminated. You cannot tell from the STATUS value whether the process completed normally or whether some circumstance caused the process to fail. For further information about process terminations, refer to WFL Task State Expression later in this section and to Determining Process History.