Use this page to view or change settings for a process definition. For WebSphere Application Server, this page provides command-line information for starting or initializing a process. For WebSphere Application Server for z/OS, this page provides command-line information for starting, initializing, or stopping a process.
To view this administrative console page, click Servers > Application Servers > server_name > Process Definition >process type.
Each of the commands that follows can be used for the control process. The servant process uses only the Start command and Start Command Args. Specify the commands for the control process on one process definition panel and the commands for the servant process on another process definition panel. Do not put the commands for the two different processes on the same panel.
Configuration tab
Data type | String |
Format | START control JCL procedure name |
Example | START BBO5ACR |
For the servant process, the value on the start command specifies the procedure name that Workload Manager (WLM) uses to start the servant process. WLM only uses this value if the WLM Dynamic Application Environment feature is installed.
Data type | String |
Format | servant JCL procedure name |
Example | BBO5ASR |
Data type | String |
Format | JOBNAME=server short name,ENV=cell short name.node short name.server short name |
Example | JOBNAME=BBOS001,ENV=SY1.SY1.BBOS001 |
Data type | String |
Format | JOBNAME=server short nameS,ENV=cell short name.node short name.server short name |
Example | JOBNAME=BBOS001S,ENV=SY1.SY1.BBOS001 |
Note: By default, the server short
name (JOBNAME) contains 7 characters, but you can lengthen the short name
to 8 characters. For more information, see Application server settings.
Specify two commands in the field, one for the Stop command and one for the Immediate Stop (CANCEL) command.
Data type | String |
Format | STOP server short name;CANCEL server short name |
Example | STOP BBOS001;CANCEL BBOS001 |
Specify arguments for the Stop command and the Immediate Stop (CANCEL) command.
Data type | String |
Format | stop command arg string;immediate stop command arg string |
Example | ;ARMRESTART Note: In this example, Stop has no arguments. Immediate Stop has the argument ARMRESTART. A semicolon precedes ARMRESTART. |
Data type | String |
Format | FORCE server short name |
Example | FORCE BBOS001 |
The default is an empty string.
Data type | String |
Format | terminate command arg string |
Example | ARMRESTART |
Note: z/OS users should not use the Working Directory setting on the administrative console. On z/OS, the working directory is always the UNIX System Services directory that is defined via the OMVS setting of the RACF user profile for the user that starts the servant. For z/OS, this cannot be changed via the administrative console. Therefore, to provide compatibility between the applications on a z/OS system and a distributed system, set the UNIX System Services directory to the same value that was supplied for the Working Directory option on the distributed system.
The process uses this directory to determine the locations of input and output files with relative path names.
Data type | String |
Specifies whether a Java classname or the name of an executable JAR file is used as the executable target of this Java process.
Specifies the Java class or JAR file to use as the main entry point for the Java server process. Make sure that you select a target that matches the type selected in the Executable Target Type field.