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Work Management and Messaging

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F8 to recall commands like F9 does on 5250 Command line but in the opposite direction

This is a really simple request, one so basic I'm almost embarrassed to ask but it has been irritating me now for over 30 years so please bear with me ;-) I believe that from day one of OS/400 you have been able to press F9 to recall previously en...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 9 Delivered

Annual/yearly option for i5/OS job scheduler

Add a frequency (FRQ) of *YEARLY to the system job scheduler, to go along with the *WEEKLY and *MONTHLY options. Allow the user to enter a specific date as the schedule date (SCDDATE) for the first run of the job, or a special value such as *YEARS...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 6 Delivered

Allows messages to be changed in 5250 emulator dialog boxes

When you launch the 5250 emulator from the IBM i Access Client Solutions component (version 1.1.4), and enter a user profile and password in the Windows box, if the user profile and/or the password is incorrect, a Windows dialog box is displayed a...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 9 Delivered

Eliminate QZSHSH, QP0ZSPWP/T Job Logs with "No Job Log"

When a user has their job set with a logging level to generate a job log (e.g., LOG(4 0 *SECLVL)), then uses QShell, there is a jog log generated for every QShell command, with the job log having a single message, CPF2523, "No job log information....
about 4 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 10 Delivered

The i5/OS Scheduler always starts at each IPL, unless you start up in a restricted state

The i5/OS Scheduler always starts at each IPL, unless you start up in a restricted state. There are times when you are IPLing the machine, and you want the machine to come up, but not have any jobs on the scheduler be released. For example, an i5/...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 7 Delivered

Working with DTAQ (CLRDTAQ, DSPDTAQ )

Please provide native commands for working with DTAQ:CLRDTAQADDDTAQEDSPDTAQThe operation system should have these commands. Use Case: see description.
over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

Viewing Disk Path information without using DST/SST

To view the current state and number of paths to a disk unit you need to go into SST. This means you need to give access to a potentially high risk area of the system, in order to gauge simple disk health information. Use Case: Firstly to add path...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

DLYJOB add handling for controlled end request

When a controlled job end is requested, such as after an ENDJOB *CNTRLD or ENDSBS *CNTRLD, it would be nice if DLYJOB could be interrupted to permit graceful shutdown of a process. Use Case: It would be nice to add some option to DLYJOB where a co...
almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

Provide an IBM i Service to return information similar to DSPACTPJ

DSPACTPJ has useful information for tuning the performance of prestart jobs. However, there is no outfile support on this command, nor is there an equivalent API. It would be nice to return this information in a manner that can be used programmati...
over 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Delivered

Add "Display Environment Variables" to Work with Job Command

Add OPTION(*ENVVAR) to the DSPJOB and WRKJOB commands and corresponding OPTION(*SELECT) Menus. Use Case: Working with CGI/Web app jobs, there is NO way to view the current Environment Variables (created view putenv() API) for any CGI job, or any j...
over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Delivered

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