Only members with permanent status recording can become quiesced. A member in the quiesced state is disassociated from XCF services, but XCF still maintains a record of the member's existence. The IXCQUIES macro places a member in the quiesced state. The following are true for a quiesced member:

• The quiesced member can no longer send or receive messages, and XCF stops scheduling the member's message user routine.
• The quiesced member can no longer have its status monitored by XCF, and XCF stops scheduling the member's status user routine.
• The quiesced member can no longer be notified by XCF of status changes to other members of the group (XCF stops scheduling the member's group user routine).
• XCF no longer associates the quiesced member with a task, job step task, address space, or system, although XCF maintains a record of the system that the member was associated with when it was last active.
• A quiesced member can become active with permanent status recording once again through IXCJOIN. When this happens, the member is treated as a new member because XCF:
  • Resets the user state field (see Changing the Value in a User State Field for more information)
  • Deletes any history information
  • Assigns the member a new unique member token.
• A quiesced member can have its user state value changed by another active member of the same group through IXCSETUS.