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Status Delivered
Workspace IBM i
Categories System Management
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 19, 2017

Allow WRKACTJOB to Select Job Status MSGW

I need to see any active jobs currently in a Job Status of MSGW (Message Waiting). Here is a hypothetical example of what I imagine:

WRKACTJOB JOBSTS(*MSGW)


Use Case:

Please see above question/answer.


Idea priority High
  • Guest
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    Jun 22, 2017

    In addition to the previous solution, there is another way Inquiry messages may be viewed using the new Navigator for i dashboard that became available last year:
    http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/October-2016/Navigator-for-i---Dashboard/

    The dashboard is no longer visible by default as it was when it first became available. You now need to click on the Dashboard link available in the upper left corner of the Navigator panel below the Welcome link. On the dashboard itself, there is a block that contains Operator Messages and within those Inquiry messages. Click on that block to see the detailed messages.

  • Guest
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    Jun 21, 2017

    As Bob correctly noted, we already have support in place to satisfy this request, in the form of the QSYS2.ACTIVE_JOB_INFO() UDTF.

  • Guest
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    Jun 21, 2017

    To orlandoFerreira PF8=Repeat Find:

    String . . . . . . . . MSGW
    Column . . . . . . . *STS

    (Not *JOB)

  • Guest
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    Jun 20, 2017

    Looks like an duplicate of this request: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=102707

  • Guest
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    Jun 20, 2017

    Hello,
    using WRKACTJOB command you can use PF8=Repeat Find and use the following options

    String . . . . . . . . MSGW
    Column . . . . . . . . *JOB

    That will allow you to find any job em message waiting status.
    Is not the best option but is a way to do it.

  • Guest
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    Jun 20, 2017

    You can do this today with SQL.
    Here's something I wrote for SQLiQuery.com but you can run it in STRSQL or Run SQL Scripts as well:
    SELECT JOB_NAME as "Job",
    SUBSYSTEM as "Subsystem",
    AUTHORIZATION_NAME as "User",
    JOB_STATUS as "Job Status",
    FUNCTION as "Last Function"

    FROM TABLE( QSYS2.ACTIVE_JOB_INFO('NO','','','') ) X
    WHERE FUNCTION_TYPE is Not NULL
    and (JOB_STATUS = 'MSGW'
    and JOB_TYPE NOT IN ('WTR','RDR','M36','MRT'));

  • Guest
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    Jun 20, 2017

    Hello,
    That can already be achieved using SQL Services:
    select * from table(active_job_info()) as t where job_status = 'MSGW';

    Best regards,
    Colin