One thing to bear in mind with ENDSYS and QCTL – QCTL may *not* be your controlling subsystem – this depends on how your system is set up.

Normally QCTL is used as the controlling subsystem – probably 8 or 9 times out of 10 this will be the case, but some sites use QBASE or their own subsystem definitions as the controlling subsystem. You can check which subsystem is the controlling subsystem by :-

DSPSYSVAL QCTLSBSD

If you have a console device, it will normally run in this subsystem. You *may* be able to transfer your job to this subsystem using the TFRJOB command to the relevant job queue.

Regards,

Martin Gilbert.

I agree with TPINKY.
If you’re looking to end all jobs you you endsys.
But you have to do this from the console or by submitting the command through QCTL.

You can always submit a PWRDWNSYS as well if you’re going to a total shutdown.

If you are trying to end all jobs, users, etc… and go into a restricted state…you could just do a ENDSYS command. This will end all system jobs as well as all subsystems except QCTL which is your controlling subsystem.

Hope this helps…

TPinky