The Listener is normally ended by issuing an MVS™ MODIFY command. The syntax and parameters of this command are:

procname

The name of the cataloged procedure that was used to start the Listener. This is required only if an identifier that was different from procname was specified with the START command when the Listener was started.

identifier

The user-determined identifier used on the START command when the Listener was started. If an explicit identifier was not specified (on the START command), MVS automatically uses the procedure name (procname) on the START command as the default identifier.

stop

Stops the Listener.

On receipt of a MODIFY command, the Listener closes the socket bound to the listening port so that no new requests can be accepted. It ends once all other sockets have been closed following acceptance of each socket by the corresponding server.

As a BMP, the Listener can be forcibly ended by issuing the IMS™ STOP REGION command with the ABDUMP option.