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Work Management and Messaging

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    Increase UIM limit for WRKACTJOB

    If there are more than 69927 jobs in a WRKACTJOB list, the usage of F7 Find would result in CPD0976, if the job is not within the list.This would cause abit of annoyance as alternative method would have to be use to achieve the same result
    8 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 0 Future consideration

    HMC PWRDWNSYS

    When stopping an IBM i LPAR through the HMC using the operating system a PWRDWNSYS command is initiated which bypasses the Exit Point Program for the POWER DOWN exit point. Use Case: When using the HMC to shutdown an IBM i LPAR you are unaware tha...
    over 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Not under consideration

    Block QZDASOINIT started as BCI job in QSERVER enhancement

    Prevent database prestart jobs to start as BCI jobs is also ending the jobs rerouted to other subsystems when we use the solutions provided by the Doc.: #638059 historical #391825917 Use Case: Client has split his service jobs over different subsy...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Not under consideration

    Help message enhancement to add detail for QPWDLVL 2/3

    Please add for QPWDLVL help text 2/3 with following information: When the IPL to change to Password Level 2/3, the OS will create an lower case version of everyone's password. At the end of the IPL every user that has a password will have an all U...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Future consideration

    Allow "5-Work with" on duplicate entries in WRKJOB

    Currently, WRKJOB QZDASOINIT, for example, returns a list of duplicate jobs. If you select one, you need to re-execute the WRKJOB to get the list of duplicate jobs back before selecting another one. Can the list of duplicate jobs be in the format ...
    about 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Not under consideration

    Add subsystem name to CPF1164 job ending message

    Need to identify when a job(s) end from a user defined subsystem.Currently, there are 50 jobs, some duplicate names.Job could end normal or abnormal. These jobs always need to be running. Note: the subsystem name does exist on the the CPF1124 mess...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Future consideration

    Pick up the workload group from the job description for a user profile when swapping in a prestart job

    In an environment with a large number of service user profiles accessing the system for a large number of different applications, workload groups provide the ability to control CPU resources at different levels for different applications. The work...
    about 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Future consideration

    Must Gather Tool (MGT) Command helptext

    MGT is a great set of tools helping you when dealing with problems. The only thing it lacks is proper command help text. Yes there are web pages available dealing with the commands available, but they are not always up to date. When looking at the...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

    Add Support for Automatic Prestart Job Tuning

    The shipped defaults for the various prestart job entries are generally not appropriate for highly used prestart jobs. In today's environment, prestart jobs are used by almost every IBM i shop. Most shops do not tune their prestart job entries and...
    about 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Not under consideration

    Send message CPPEA55 to QSYSMSG.

    The system generates message CPPEA55 when it detects a service processor battery failure, but it is not currently sent to message queue QSYSMSG. If it were sent, a user message handling program attached to QSYSMSG could monitor for this message an...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Future consideration

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