Use the CANCEL command to halt processing of batch jobs that you have submitted from your terminal. A READY message is displayed at your terminal if the job has been canceled successfully. A message is also displayed at the system operator's console when a job is canceled.

CANCEL is a foreground-initiated-background (FIB) command. You must have authorization from installation management to use CANCEL. This command is generally used with the SUBMIT, STATUS, and OUTPUT commands.

Requesting an attention interrupt after issuing a CANCEL command might terminate that command's processing. In this case, you cannot resume CANCEL processing by pressing the Enter key as you can after most attention interrupts.