foreground and background

kiran_kreddy · New User Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 4 Location: INDIA

what is the difference between the foreground and background
compilations and link ????

thanks
Kiran

guptae · Posted: Wed Nov 30, 2005 2:29 pm

While you compile ur code background its process it in bachgrouind & make ur tso session availabe which is not happen in forground compile , in this case it holds ur tso session until compilation is done.

Hope it will be helpful

kiran_kreddy · New User Joined: 16 Mar 2005 Posts: 4 Location: INDIA

thanks ekta,
is this the only difference ?
do we get load module in both ways, if not what is the output of foreground and background, and always we need the load module to run JCL

umeshkmrsh · New User Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 79 Location: India

Compilation is a process to create a load module of a program and the same gets created whether you compile in foreground or a background mode.

It suggested to use batch compilation as it will not lock your terminal till the compilation complates and also in batch the schedular is little bit free to schedule your compilation job as per CPU availability.

If you have a list of programs to be compiled better use batch compilation.