Keywords › THREADS Keyword—Maximum Number of PTHREAD Created Threads

THREADS Keyword—Maximum Number of PTHREAD Created Threads

Valid on z/OS.

Use the THREADS keyword to specify the maximum number of pthread_created threads, including those running, queued, and exited but not detached, that a single process can have concurrently active.This field overrides the MAXTHREADS parameter in the BPXPRMxx member of PARMLIB for this user.

THREADS is equivalent to THREADSMAX in RACF

This keyword has the following format:

TSS ADD(acidname) THREADS(nnnnnn)

nnnnnn

The maximum number of pthread_created threads a single process can have active.

Range: 0 to 100,000

Default: USS takes the system defaults set in BPXPRMxx.

This keyword is used with the ADDTO, REPLACE, REMOVE, and WHOHAS commands.