A remote task does not inherit the FAMILY, GROUPCODE, or SUPPLEMENTARYGRPS task attribute values of its parent. Instead, the remote task inherits the values of the corresponding usercode attributes in the usercode definition at the remote host. If any of these attributes is not specified in the usercode definition at the remote host, then, by default, that task attribute receives a null value.

The parent process can override the family default at the remote host by explicitly assigning a FAMILY value to the remote task. The parent process can override the FAMILY specification at the remote host by explicitly assigning a FAMILY value to the remote task, either with a task equation or with an assignment to the task variable of the remote task. However, the parent process cannot override the GROUPCODE or SUPPLEMENTARYGRPS values at the remote host because these attributes are read-only.