DETACHED specifies creation of a detached process.

NODETACHED specifies creation of a spawned job within the same process. A spawned job shares process limits with other jobs in the process and the logical names of the parent process.

VMS security mechanisms prevent a captive account from creating a DETACHED job.

The MAXDETACH quota in the user authorization file determines the maximum number of detached processes a user may create.

By default, JOBs are DETACHED.