Starting/stopping the mail reader

Starting the mail reader

Use one of the following two commands to start the mail reader:

	/START-MAILREADER
or
	/START-PROGRAM *MODULE($.SYSPRG.MAIL.nnn,READER,*ANY,*ADVANCED)

Stopping the mail reader

Use one of the following two commands to stop the mail reader:

	/INFORM-PROGRAM 'SHUTDOWN',*TSN(<tsn>)
or
	/INFORM-PROGRAM 'CANCEL',*TSN(<tsn>)

These commands stop the mail reader in a controlled manner, i.e. after any ongoing accessing of a mailbox is completed.

The following conditions apply for the described /INFORM-PROGRAM commands:

• The commands must be entered via the console interface of the system user

• The mail reader must be executed as a batch task

• The TSN of the batch task must be specified

The user terminates the mail reader executed as a batch task as follows:

/CANCEL-JOB JOB-IDENTIFICATION=*TSN(TSN=<tsn of the batch task>)