System communication jobs

This topic contains a list of system communication jobs.

Qlus (logical unit services)
Qlus handles the event handling for logical unit devices, known as communication devices. Qlus is also responsible for allocating devices to the correct communications subsystem.
Qcmnarbxx (communication arbiters)
The communications arbiters with Qsysarb (system arbiter) and Qtaparb (tape arbiter) process work for all types of devices, not just communication devices. This work includes communications connection, disconnection, device locking, and error recovery processing. At restart, the system value communication arbiter jobs (QCMNARB) determines the number of communications arbiter jobs that are started. A minimum of three communications arbiters are started on single-processor systems.
Qsyscomm1 (system communications)
This job handles some communications and input/output (I/O) activity.
Q400filsvr (remote file system communication)
This job performs the common programming interface communications (APPN or APPC) for these remote file systems.
Related concepts
System startup jobs
System arbiters
Database jobs
Other system jobs