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END Command

Authorization: OPERATOR

To terminate processing, use the END command. END can run either after all active commands are complete or immediately, with the FORCE option.

After you enter the END command, users cannot invoke CA VM:Backup. If CA VM:Backup issues a message (for example, to request a tape mount) while completing a currently running job, the operator can respond to the request, but cannot enter new commands.

When CA VM:Backup ends, you cannot submit new jobs until the system is restarted. To see a list of active and pending jobs before ending CA VM:Backup, use the QUERY REQUESTS command.

This command has the following format:

END [(FORCE]

Definitions

FORCE

Optionally terminates CA VM:Backup without waiting for active processing to complete. All currently running jobs and commands stop executing immediately. The following list indicates how upon restarting CA VM:Backup handles jobs that the END (FORCE command interrupted.

AUTOCAT job

Last completed catalog

Backup, restore, MPC, or REINIT job, restart recovery not enabled

Beginning

Backup job, restart recovery enabled

Last completed domain on last completed tape for each tape stream

Restore job, restart recovery enabled

Last completed domain; restarts restores of incompletely restored domains from beginning of domain

MPC job, restart recovery enabled

Last domain from input tape that was successfully copied to output tapes

REINIT job, restart recovery enabled

Last reinitialized tape

When restarted, all jobs appear as though they were never interrupted, with one exception. If CA VM:Backup restarts a backup, restore, or MPC job using restart recovery, file-level detail information for domains processed before the point where the job restarted is missing from all reports except the keyword data report. For more information about the restart recovery process, see Restart Recovery.