Use either of the following PowerExchange commands to stop a Condense job that is running in continuous mode:

These commands maintain data integrity and enable you to resume condense processing efficiently. Both commands perform the same shutdown except that the SHUTCOND command first performs a final condense operation. Before shutting down, PowerExchange Condense takes a checkpoint that contains the latest restart tokens so that condense processing can resume from where it left off.

On z/OS, PowerExchange Condense ignores the STOP (P) command. If you issue this command, PowerExchange issues a message that indicates the command is not valid.

On z/OS, if you issue the CANCEL (C) command for a Condense job, the job stops. When you restart the job, it resumes from the last checkpoint. Any condense processing that occurred since that checkpoint is rolled back, and PowerExchange deletes the related CDCT records and condense files.

You can issue pwxcmd shutcond and shutdown commands from a Linux, UNIX, or Windows system to a PowerExchange Condense process running on a remote i5/OS or z/OS system.