NET/MASTER Management Services (MS) Command Reference Manual

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LINK STOP
NonStop NET/MASTER MS Commands
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LINK STOP The LINK STOP command stops an Inter-NET/MASTER Connection (INMC) link.
You can restart the link using the LINK START command.
When you next restart the link, NonStop NET/MASTER MS does not reobtain the
records that make up the complete link definition from global memory: NonStop
NET/MASTER MS uses the complete link definition that was current when you
stopped the link.
The LINK STOP command allows you to stop a link, make a change to a complete link
definition (such as the alteration or deletion of a link, session, or unit definition
record), but then restart the link without implementing the change.
If you want to stop a link and then restart it later without making any changes to the
complete link definition, you should use the LINK STOP command rather than the
LINK RESET command. Both commands stop a link, but the sequence LINK
STOP/LINK START restarts the link faster than the sequence LINK RESET/LINK
START.
The LINK STOP command does not alter the records that make up the complete link
definition in global memory.
LINK STOP= link-name
link-name
specifies the name of the link to the remote system. The link name is defined in
the LINK DEFINE command. The link name can be from 1 through 12 characters
long and can include any displayable characters. Alphabetic characters are not
case-sensitive.
Considerations
The default authority level of this command is 3.
You can enter this command from any NCL procedure, including the INIT NCL
procedure, by using either the CMD core statement or the INTCMD verb.
For related information, see the other LINK commands and the PARAM
FEATUREDISABLE, SESSION, SHOW LINKS, and UNIT commands.
Example
The following example stops the link, REMOTE1:
LINK STOP=REMOTE1