pidadr OpenVMS usage:process_id type: longword (unsigned) access: modify mechanism: by reference Process identification (PID) of the process to be suspended. The pidadr argument is the address of the longword PID. The pidadr argument can refer to a process running on the local node or a process running on another node in the OpenVMS Cluster system. You must specify the pidadr argument to suspend a process whose UIC group number is different from that of the calling process. prcnam OpenVMS usage:process_name type: character-coded text string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor-fixed-length string descriptor Name of the process to be suspended. The prcnam argument is the address of a character string descriptor pointing to the process name. A process running on the local node can be identified with a 1- to 15-character string. To identify a process on a particular node on a cluster, specify the full process name, which includes the node name as well as the process name. The full process name can contain up to 23 characters. A process name is implicitly qualified by its UIC group number. Because of this, you can use the prcnam argument only to suspend processes in the same UIC group as the calling process. To suspend processes in other groups, you must specify the pidadr argument. flags OpenVMS usage:mask_longword type: longword (unsigned) access: read only mechanism: by value Longword of bit flags specifying options for the suspend operation. Currently, only bit 0 is used for the flags argument. When bit 0 is set, the process is suspended at kernel mode and ASTs are not deliverable to the process. To request a kernel mode suspend, the caller must be in either kernel mode or executive mode. The default (bit 0 is clear) is to suspend the process at supervisor mode, where executive or kernel mode ASTs can be delivered to the process. If executive or kernel mode ASTs have been delivered to a process suspended at supervisor mode, that process will return to its suspended state after the AST routine executes.