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Some of this is already available:
CANCEL SESSION ALL
CANCEL RESTORE ALL
CANCEL REQUEST ALL
CANCEL REPLICATION
CANCEL EXPIRATION
IDENTIFY DUP FILEPOOL NUMPROC=0
We're still stuck on CANCEL EXPORT (have to put in a name)
These processes have to be cancelled one at a time:
* BA STG
* RECLAIM
* CONVERT
* MIGRATE
* MOVE
* RECONCILE
* AUDIT
* REPAIR
* SHRED
* CHECKIN
* CHECKOUT
etc etc.
There is still no way to cancel a RUN script.
If the database is on SSD, it may be faster to HALT and restart TSM.
Externally, this could be done in a variety of ways, including:
dsmadmc -id=ADMIN -pa=ADMIN -dataonly=yes \
"select 'can proc',PROCESS_NUM from processes where PROCESS like 'Backup%' " \
| dsmadmc -id=ADMIN -pa=ADMIN -dataonly=yes -tab
However, that still does not prevent the next commands in a RUN script from starting.
There are messy ways to work with that too:
serial
select * from SESSIONS where CLIENT_NAME="ADMINSUPERCANCEL"
if (rc_ok) exit
parallel
/* some code here */
serial
select * from SESSIONS where CLIENT_NAME="ADMINSUPERCANCEL"
if (rc_ok) exit
Having both of these internal to ADSM / TSM / Protect would be a long-desired goodness.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=102450 is similar to this RFE.
Maybe add a function to disallow startup of new processes. Like the disa sess command. Same for dismount vol. Prevent server from mounting new volumes. I have not counted the number of times I want to halt as server gracefulle, but ending up fighting startup of new processes and mounting volumes.