The Prohibit Chaining attribute specifies whether the DSA is allowed to communicate with other DSAs when attempting to satisfy user requests. Communication between DSAs is called chaining. The DSA must be in state OFF when you set this attribute. Syntax: SET DSA PROHIBIT CHAINING <TRUE/FALSE> To prohibit chaining, specify the value TRUE; otherwise the value specified by the user or the user application is used. For example, a user of the DXIM command line interface can use the No Chaining control. If a DSA is prohibited from communicating with other DSAs, then it provides the user or the application with a "continuation reference" or a "referral" instead. These identify which DSA(s) would have been contacted, and provide the user with the information they require to make the connection(s) directly if they want to. For ease of use, it is usually preferable not to prohibit chaining. Note that prohibiting chaining does not prevent DSAs from connecting to other DSAs for other reasons, such as replication.