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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 16, 2017

"Cancel Process all" command in Spectrum protect

Would be great if "cancel process all" command in TSM/Spectrum Protect is introduced.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    Nov 15, 2017

    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" \
    | 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.

  • Guest
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    Sep 15, 2017

    http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=81517 is similar to this RFE.

  • Guest
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    Mar 20, 2017

    it would be nice to have a cancel process command by process name. IBM has implemented a cancel replication and expiration commands.
    why not cancel process commands for all the other process types?