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Gracefully Shutdown the DSCL Jobs

Set the sysparm DSCLRPLY to Y to allow a graceful shutdown during any data storage command language (DSCL) job.

Business Value:

A graceful shutdown of the DSCL jobs allows more flexibility in your daily operation.

Additional Considerations:

This enhancement allows you the option of shutting down any DSCL job prematurely. By setting DSCLRPLY to Y, an outstanding message is displayed on the operators console for the duration of any DSCL job. Replying to this message simply shuts down the job after processing the current resource, producing a complete set of reports including grand totals.

Backup and archive jobs can be shutdown gracefully by using the sysparm DSCLRPLY. 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.

Note: If jobs are canceled instead of being gracefully shutdown, data sets could be left in a partially processed state and the normal reports will not be produced.

With DSCLRPLY set to Y, 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.

More Information:

For more information, see DSCL Graceful Shutdown in the User Guide.