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ACS and iNav provide good alternatives to the green screen interfaces for working with jobs and joblogs.
The JOBLOG_INFO table function is a powerful tool for analyzing and searching job logs;
From ACS, you can use:
SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.JOBLOG_INFO('*'));
to view the full joblog (insert the qualified job name instead of '*' to view a specific job log).
To search for a specific text string in the joblog, you can add a WHERE clause for the MESSAGE_TEXT.
For example:
SELECT * FROM TABLE(QSYS2.JOBLOG_INFO('*')) A WHERE A.MESSAGE_TEXT LIKE '%errors%';
The CAAC has reviewed this requirement and recommends that IBM not implement this request. A better solution would be to use existing ACS or Navigator, both of which provide a fully searchable text.
Background: The COMMON Americas Advisory Council (CAAC) members have a broad range of experience in working with small and medium-sized IBM i customers. CAAC has a key 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.
For more information about CAAC, see www.common.org/caac
For more details about CAAC's role with RFEs, see http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/Blogs/i-Can/May-2017/COMMON-Americas-Advisory-Council-%28CAAC%29-and-RFEs/
Nancy Uthke-Schmucki - CAAC Program Manager
Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Work Management and Messaging
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None
For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
Brand - Servers and Systems Software
Product family - Power Systems
Product - IBM i
Component - Core OS
Operating system - IBM i
Source - None
Did anybody try to use the following command:
DSPJOBLOG OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(QTEMP/MYJOBLOG)
As for myself, to point to the first Unmonitored ESCAPE MSG in the joblog, I designed my own Freeware Utility, You may try it:
https://sites.google.com/site/i400gps/find-and-dispaly-first-escape-msg-in-a-joblog
Unless something has changed, you can't just call an API from the command line. But you missed my point. I want to be able to extract the job log from the job log display itself. You make it overly complex and burdensome to get a job log into a form that I can analyze.
Have you considered using the QMHCTLJL API? This API can be used to designate the destination of the job log to an output file (instead of a spooled file).
See the API documentation for more information on using this API to control job log output:
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/apis/QMHCTLJL.htm
Creating a new RFE based on Community RFE #92898 in product IBM i.