Format 13: Stopping the TCP/IP Interface Before PEND

When the TCP/IP (TD) subtask has been activated during loading of the Network Definition Table (see Loading an NDT (Format 1)), there may be reasons to terminate this task, and thereby the TCP/IP interface, prematurely before VSE/POWER PEND time, such as to:

• free resources (a VSE subtask, polling events, etc.)
• load a new NDT with a Local Port Number (see PNODE PORT= in PNODE Generation Macro for Networking Support) different from the one previously used (see also message 1RA5I, RC=0005)
• load a new NDT to activate a changed SPEED value (see PNODE SPEED= in PNODE Generation Macro for Networking Support).
• or because the TCP/IP subtask has ceased serving TCP nodes with TCP/IP socket requests.

EOJ

Specify EOJ when the TCP/IP interface, as represented by the TD subtask, should be terminated only when all TCP nodes have been stopped successfully by the PSTOP PNET command.

FORCE

Specify FORCE when the TCP/IP interface, as represented by the TD subtask, should be terminated abruptly by a subtask CANCEL request, which issues the message

     1Q2CI…CANCEL BY PSTOP

followed by an IDUMP of the VSE/POWER partition. Use the FORCE option only when the TD subtask does not react to PSTOP TCPIP,EOJ, although all PNET TCP nodes have been stopped.