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    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

    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...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Future 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...
    almost 6 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Not under consideration

    Add Adopted User Profile(s) to QUSRJOBI and RTVJOBA

    Apparently there is no way to retrieve the User Profile under which a job is running when a program that Adopts another User Profile is in the call stack. For example, User BOB signs on and calls program XYZ which is owned by QPGMR and uses adopte...
    over 1 year ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    Improve diagnostics when routing work by user profile with allow_rollover set to NO and the subsystem is not active

    When routing work by user profile with QSYS2.SET_SERVER_SBS_ROUTING, the allow_rollover parameter dictates the behavior if the target subsystem is not active. I always recommend allow_rollover to be NO in a production environment as that allows en...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Future consideration

    Add exit point for job message queue full event

    IBM has provided the very useful SQL table function QSYS2.JOBLOG_INFO to return the messages in a job log (we also have the messaging API's, but I will focus on JOBLOG_INFO here because of its ease of use). JOBLOG_INFO can be used to investigate w...
    almost 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

    Enhance QMHRTVM with Message_ID

    QMHRTVM is used to return the 1st and 2nd level message text for a specific MSGID from a *MSGF. However, API formats RTVM0300 and RTVM0400 are the only formats that return the actual MSGID of the message being retrieved. Formats 100 and 200 do not...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    Ability to filter CPI1150 "not waiting for specific message" MSGW jobs

    We use mostly SQL calls to monitor our IBM i partitions.A common issue we come across on various partitions is jobs that are in status MSGW but are not waiting for a specific message (CPI1150 when you put a 7 on them in WRKACTJOB). These jobs are ...
    over 4 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 4 Future consideration

    Enhance QMHRTVM Retrieve Option parm with *GE

    The QMHRTVM (Retrieve Message) API has a so-called "Retrieve Option" parameter that controls whether the MSGID is returned or the Next MSGID is returned from the MSGF. Please add a *NEXT or *SAME option, meaning *GE (Greater Than or Equal) option ...
    almost 5 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Future consideration

    Restrict Powerdown system command to run from Interactive environment

    The PWRDWNSYS command is utilized within the environment to either shut down or restart the partition as necessary. This process is overseen by the technicians responsible for maintaining the platform. However, I have observed a potential security...
    7 months ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

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