March 12, 2004

How to Cancel a TSO Session

Sometimes you will find yourself in the situation where you have a frozen TSO session or perhaps a runaway CLIST, and you want to cancel your TSO session. You can easily cancel it yourself.

A web facility exists that allows you to cancel a job—and a TSO session is really just a special type of job. The jobname for your TSO session is simply your Titan USERid. To access this facility, go to the Titan SILK Web page and select "TSO Commands."

First Identify Your TSO Session

•       COMMAND—select "status" from the drop-down menu

•       Job or Data Set Name—type the jobname (your Titan USERid) in the open field



•       Press "Enter" to Display Your TSO Jobs

You will be prompted for your Titan USERid and RACF password. A job or list of jobs will appear. For example:

JOB AAAAIII(TSU12443) ON OUTPUT QUEUE
JOB AAAAIII(TSU22801) ON OUTPUT QUEUE
JOB AAAAIII(TSU22843) EXECUTING

In this example, the third job on the list is the current TSO session—that is, the one marked EXECUTING. Make note of the job number, then click on the BACK button of your browser to return to the previous page. The first two jobs on the list above are older sessions.

Now You Can Cancel Your TSO Session

•       COMMAND—select "cancel" from the drop-down menu

•       Job or Data Set—type in your Titan USERid

AAAAIII(TSU22843)

Note: If there are several TSO sessions in the list, you must include the job number when you cancel your session. The simplest thing to do is to just copy and paste it from the list of jobs.

More Information

If you need help or have questions, call TASC at 301-594-6248.