Its nice to cancel CICS and have it come down , but what caused the problem in the first place and will it happen again ?
Regards, Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer [p] 678.266.3399 x304 [m] 609-346-0399 identityforge.com This message is for the designated recipient only and may contain privileged, proprietary, or otherwise private information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately or let us know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], and then delete the original. Any other use of the email by you is prohibited. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Saturday, November 01, 2008 12:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Can't Cancel a CICS Region On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:45:20 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And since SDSF was mentioned, did you know that giving the STC >a Z command gives the STC a FORCE? That scares the begeebers >out of me. Is FORCE now considered safe enough to be done that >easily? > >It looks like that is available only for STCs (and I have not been >brave enough to try it) so that may not matter in this case. A lot >of shops run CICS as jobs rather than STCs. > The comments are bad. The "C*" commands are JES2 cancel. The "K*" commands and "Z" issue an MVS cancel / force. The K/Z work fine for a batch job as well as STCs. C Cancel a job. CA Cancel a job that is defined to Automatic Restart Manager (ARM). CD Cancel a job and take a dump. CDA Cancel a job that is defined to ARM, and take a dump. K Cancel a started task (system cancel). KD Cancel a started task and take a dump (system cancel). Z Cancel a started task (system force). -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
