Set the sysparm IXMREPLY to Y to allow a graceful shutdown during IXMAINT processing.
Business Value:
A graceful shutdown of the IXMAINT job allows more flexibility in your daily operation.
Additional Considerations:
IXMAINT is a CA Disk utility that provides the capability to process the entire CA Disk archive data set name index and delete records that meet specific criteria. CA Disk IXMAINT processing can be instructed to allow the operator to terminate any IXMAINT job normally through an operator reply. To activate this feature, specify Y for the value of IXMREPLY. The default value of N deactivates the feature.
A graceful shutdown allows the jobs to complete all work in progress and produces the normal reports for error conditions encountered and work successfully completed before the jobs terminate. With IXMREPLY active, a message is issued to the operator at the beginning of the job and remains on the console for the duration of the job. If the operator replies END to this message, the processing stops early. When using a FILES Data Base, an inquiry is made to validate whether the ARCHVOL record is empty, that is the ARCHVOL record has no DSNINDEX records. So, the ARCHVOL record can be deleted even when the IXMAINT is shutting down. However, when using a Files Data Set, all the DSNINDEX records must be processed before deleting an ARCHVOL record. So, when using the shutdown option for an FDS, no ARCHVOLs will be deleted.
You must have PTF RO08476 to take advantage of this best practice.
More Information:
For more information, see the section Graceful Shutdown in the chapter "FILES Maintenance" in the User Guide.
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