Container DFHNORESPONSE

DFHNORESPONSE is a container of DATATYPE(CHAR) that, in the request phase of a service requester pipeline, indicates that the service provider is not expected to return a response.

The contents of container DFHNORESPONSE are undefined; message handlers that need to know if the service provider is expected to return a response need only determine if the container is present or not:
  • If container DFHNORESPONSE is present, then no response is expected.
  • If container DFHNORESPONSE is absent, then a response is expected.

This information is provided, initially, by the service requester application, based upon the protocol used with the service provider. Therefore, it is inadvisable to delete this container in a message handler (or to create it, if it does not exist), as doing so may disturb the protocol between the end points.

Other than in the request phase of a service requester pipeline, the use of this container is not defined.