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Moving this request to Uncommitted Candidate for further investigation.
The CEAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM view this as a MEDIUM priority requirement that should be addressed.
Background: The COMMON Europe Advisory Council (CEAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CEAC has a crucial role in working with IBM i development to help assess the value and impact of individual RFEs on the broader IBM i community and has therefore reviewed your RFE.
To find out how CEAC help to shape the future of IBM i, see CEAC @ ibm.biz/BdYSYj and the article "The Five Hottest IBM i RFEs Of The Quarter" at ibm.biz/BdYSZT
Therese Eaton – CEAC Program Manager, IBM
When testing what I suggested using the DB2 for i Service searching the History Log for a specific message ID on a system with much activity and many CPIAD09 in it. I think the response time of that search also needs to be taken into account when deciding if this is a valid workaround.
In my test I did search the history log for several days and each day contains around a million records. Searching a lot of data takes time. So what is seen as a workable response time needs to be decided also.
Good suggestion. Moving to under consideration for further investigation.
Is the DB2 for i service for viewing the history not an acceptable alternative?
The option to omit the message id CPIAD09 from the result set is possible.
The question is if working with a different approach/user interface can be seen as good alternative or solution?
I agree with this request.
CPIAD09 messages are very important to understand the incoming work requests, peak workload timeframes, etc., so logging them is required. But having them in the history log is problematic. An alternative log repository for the CPIAD09 (and CPIAD0B for the sign-on server and CPI3E34 for the DDM//DRDA server) message would be very helpful in making the history log more useable. One could also argue that the CPI1124/CPF1164 messages could also be sent to this alternative logging location. Another noisy message is TCP2617.
Where I'm going with this is that there are a set of messages that can generate a lot of noise in the history log. The ones listed above are the most common, but on some systems, there are additional messages that can clutter up QHST.
Wouldn't it be nice if the customer could have a way to select which messages should go to the alternative logging location to allow them to keep QHST as clean as they wish?
It's very convenient that DSPLOG has a parameter for the log.