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    Add details to subsystem changed messages (CPC1602 and CPC1604) as to what was changed

    CPC1602 - Subsystem changed, and CPC1604, Active subsystem changed are logged to QSYSOPR and QHST and simply state that the specified subsystem was changed. There is no additional message information that tells the user WHAT was changed. In tryi...
    about 3 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    Provide error handler for secondary thread of multi-threaded job

    When a multi-threaded job encounters an unhandled exception, the system should be able to gracefully handle the error with the standard *INQ message to *EXT or QSYSOPR. Background When an unhandled exception occurs in the secondary thread of a mul...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    Separate System journals and logs on CHGCLNUP

    There are lots of system journals that do not need to be retained for as long as we retain the system log. It would be nice to specify clean up of these two items separately on the CHGCLNUP tool Use Case: CHGCLNUP could be set to purge system jour...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

    WRKJOB: CPI1157-Duplicate jobs found; can it return back to the list?

    WRKJOB currently returns a list of matching jobs and asks me to select one. After having done so and examined the selected job, I get returned to a command line. Can it be enhanced to return to the list of jobs? Or the list be enhanced with a 5="W...
    over 9 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 5 Not under consideration

    Port Loadlever to iSeries

    Loadleveler is a fantastic workload management tool on the AIX platform. It's astonishing that the IBM iSeries, which is known as an amazing batch transaction system, doesn't not have an equivalent tool. Job Scheduler and Advanced Job Scheduler al...
    over 7 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Not under consideration

    novalink selection of IP interface

    Add interface selection to Novalink to allow correct network solution
    almost 8 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 2 Future consideration

    Change the QGYOLJOB API so that when I job is not found and Job information status = 'L' that the prior entry from a QGYGTLE call isn't copied to the not found record.

    When using QGYOLJOB API and the QGYGTLE API to read a list of jobs, if one of the jobs requested to be returned is not found, the returned data includes the Job Info Status value of 'L' meaning the job was not accessible. However the remainder of ...
    about 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 1 Future consideration

    JOBQ that spans multiple systems

    Consider possibility of creating a JOBQ that spans multiple systems. Use Case: Think of a client who only has one tape drive (FC attached) but multiple IBM i LPARs. In this case only one client at a time can save to this tape drive. Most saves are...
    over 8 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 2 Not under consideration

    Allow the Novalink partition to perform LPM operations

    Currently LPM operations in PowerVC are performed via the GUI. Using this method also allows you to select which network (from the ones configured/available) that the operations occurs on. I think that this feature should be either via a command o...
    over 6 years ago in PowerVM NovaLink 1 Future consideration

    Submit job where the child job inherit the submitter job's QTEMP

    Such option will free the submitted (child job) from the need to create objects in its QTEMP that were already exists in the submitter job's (parent) QTEMP This can be achieved by a new SBMJOB keyword: QTEMP(*NONE, *ALL, *NOTFILES, <object type...
    over 2 years ago in IBM i / Work Management and Messaging 3 Not under consideration

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