Disabling access to adapter services

Every adapter service is associated with a PROCESSTYPE resource. The process type can be specified in the COMMAREA or container that is passed as the request message when invoking an adapter service.

By disabling the PROCESSTYPE resource for an adapter service, you can temporarily stop that particular adapter service from being invoked in the runtime environment.
  1. List all of the PROCESSTYPE resources defined in your CICS system using the CEMT INQUIRE PROCESSTYPE command.
  2. When you have found the PROCESSTYPE resource that matches the adapter service that you want to disable, use the STATUS(DISABLED) option on the CEMT SET PROCESSTYPE command to disable the resource.
Any service requesters that use the process type for the disabled resource in the request message receive a CIA prefixed error message.
If you want to re-enable a PROCESSTYPE resource, use the STATUS(ENABLED) option on the CEMT SET PROCESSTYPE command.