To use timeout delete in a CICS® Transaction Server for z/OS® system to which terminals are shipped, you need only specify two system initialization parameters:
You can use this parameter in a transaction routing environment, on the application-owning and intermediate regions, to prevent terminal definitions having to be reshipped because they have been deleted prematurely.
You can use this parameter in a transaction routing environment, on the application-owning and intermediate regions, to control:
For details of how to specify system initialization parameters, see the CICS System Definition Guide.
After CICS startup you can use a CEMT or EXEC CICS INQUIRE DELETSHIPPED command to discover the current settings of DSHIPIDL and DSHIPINT. For flexible control over when mass delete operations take place, you can use a SET DELETSHIPPED command to reset the interval until the next invocation of the timeout delete mechanism. (The revised interval starts from the time the command is issued, not from the time the remote delete mechanism was last invoked, nor from CICS startup.) Alternatively, you can use a PERFORM DELETSHIPPED command to cause the timeout delete mechanism to be invoked immediately.
For information about the CEMT INQUIRE, PERFORM, and SET DELETSHIPPED commands, see the CICS Supplied Transactions manual. For programming information about their EXEC CICS equivalents, see the CICS System Programming Reference manual.