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Ending an XCOPY Job

You can optionally specify a system parameter that allows the computer operator to terminate XCOPY prematurely (a graceful shutdown). Message 4255 is issued to the operator at the beginning of the XCOPY process. If the operator replies to the message to indicate that processing is to be stopped, XCOPY will terminate when the current input volume has completed processing. Processing completes normally, and all reports and statistics are generated as normal. This option permits you to start XCOPY and run until the resources are needed for something else. Thus XCOPY can be run in otherwise unused machine time. Specify this option through sysparm MERREPLY.