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Effects of Stopping CA VM:Secure and CA VM:Director Abnormally

If you use the ABEND command to abnormally end CA VM:Secure or CA VM:Director, they terminate with an ABN001 abend. Following the abend, control returns to CMS with a return code of 200. CA VM:Secure and CA VM:Director produce a dump according to your specifications on the DUMP record in the PRODUCT CONFIG file.

CA VM:Secure and CA VM:Director abend on their own if they encounter a severe operational error. Technical Support can often debug errors in the CA VM:Secure or CA VM:Director system by analyzing a dump from your CA VM:Secure or CA VM:Director system. In some cases, however, an error occurs that is not severe enough to trigger an automatic abnormal termination, but is severe enough that a dump may be necessary to analyze the problem. In these cases, Technical Support may ask you to terminate CA VM:Secure or CA VM:Director abnormally to create a dump using the ABEND command.

Do not use this ABEND command to terminate CA VM:Secure or CA VM:Director unless a critically unusual situation occurs and you need a dump of the CA VM:Secure or CA VM:Director system. For normal termination of CA VM:Secure or CA VM:Director operation, use the END command.