Deleting a node

Use the DELETE keyword to delete a node from the set of known target nodes. After you delete a node, the local node and the deleted node can no longer send requests to each other. Before you can delete a node, the connection with the node must be dormant or defined. When you delete a node, any workspace data sets that are allocated for the node are deallocated. If the workspace data sets are empty, they are also deleted.

Rules: There is an order you need to observe when deleting nodes. The TARGET command enforces these rules:

Before deleting the local node, delete all other target nodes.
Before deleting the local main system on a multisystem node, delete all of its remote nodes.
If the local node is a multisystem node, before deleting the local system whose SYSNAME matches the current CVTSNAME delete all other target nodes.
Before deleting the MAIN system of a remote multisystem node, delete all other member systems of that multisystem node.

For example, to delete NODEC from the set of targets known to NODEA, issue the following commands on NODEA:

TARGET NODE(NODEC) DORMANT
TARGET NODE(NODEC) DELETE