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Action Commands

You can use any of the following commands in the action field:

S or START

Starts the device

P or STOP

Stops the device; currently active work is allowed to complete

C or CANCEL

Cancels active work

Z or HALT

Halts the device and prevents work from starting

The remaining fields on the panel are described in the following:

Device

Specifies the device indicated by this data line

Seqno

Specifies the file sequence number of the file being read or written by this session

Owner

Specifies the filename of spool file being read or written by this session

Lines

Specifies the number of records to be processed by this session

Rec/xmit

Specifies the number of records processed so far

Status

Displays the status of the device

ACTIVE

Specifies that the logical device is active

INACTIVE

Indicates that there is no activity on the logical device

STARTING

Specifies that a session start request has been received for a receiving device

Specifies that a start request has been sent for a transmitting device

DRAINING

Specifies that a P command has been issued against the logical device, but the command has not yet completed

DRAINED

Specifies that the drain command has completed on the logical device

HALTING

Specifies that the Z command has been issued, but has not yet completed

HALTED

Specifies that the halt command has completed on the logical device

CANCELING

Specifies that the C command has been issued to cancel all current activities, transmissions are interrupted, and the input file is put on hold status; data received completes, but the data is not stored in CA Spool

FAST CLOSE

Detects a session error; termination processing is started as if a cancel command has been issued.