This chapter describes how your program can exercise a limited form of control
over interactive sessions on an MPE/iX-based computer system. Because an
interactive session (or a job) is a process created and managed by the system,
a user is restricted from being able to use process management intrinsics to
create, manage, and delete sessions.
MPE/iX provides you with two intrinsics that enable you to direct the system to
create a session on a specified terminal, then abort the session when desired:
"Creating a Session Programmatically", describes how your program can
use the STARTSESS intrinsic to create a session for yourself, or for other users, on an available (not currently assigned to a session) terminal without
having to be at the specified terminal.
"Aborting a Session Programmatically", describes how your program can
use the ABORTSESS intrinsic to remove (abort) an interactive session from your
system.
