Collection Services is always running on your system and you can use the Performance Data Investigator with Collection Services data for insights into your prestart jobs.
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Posted: December 6, 2018 |
IBM recently released an updated version of Access Client Solutions (ACS). There is a long list of enhancements in this update; at the end of this article you will find the list of the enhancements from the ReadMeSPACS.txt file. The number of Request for Enhancement (RFEs) addressed in this update is impressive. The ACS development team is clearly listening to what users are asking for.
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Posted: November 27, 2018 |
What happens when you generate a spooled file from a prestart job? Where does the output go and is there an easy way to find it?
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Posted: November 16, 2018 |
Trying to track down a message sent to the job log of a prestart job is much like looking for a needle in a haystack; on busy systems, there could be hundreds of jobs to look through. If the error was relatively minor, the jobs may end and not generate a job log.
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Posted: November 5, 2018 |
Many prestart server jobs on IBM i use the default server job description (QGPL/QDFTSVR) provided with the operating system. Several of host servers use the QSYS/QZBSJOBD job description, but that job description has the same default parameter settings as the QDFTSVR job description. These job descriptions are defined for optimal performance for prestart jobs.
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Posted: October 25, 2018 |
I recently wrote Work with Active Prestart Jobs, which reviewed how you can manage your prestart server jobs with WRKACTJOB. This approach works well if you want to find jobs by subsystem, job name or the job’s current user profile.
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Posted: October 3, 2018 |
Several enhancements to IBM i services were announced with IBM i 7.3 TR5 and IBM i 7.2 TR9. The Db2 Group PTF, which includes these enhancements, was released on September 14th.
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Posted: September 25, 2018 |
This week, I am taking a break from the series on prestart jobs to review the improved Properties feature added to the IFS support in ACS.
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Posted: September 11, 2018 |
In a previous blog about Prestart Jobs and Server Jobs, I noted there is no green screen interface for server jobs. What’s the best way to manage your prestart jobs using a 5250 session? This blog will review features of Work with Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) that make finding prestart jobs easier.
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Posted: September 5, 2018 |
In 2009, I wrote a blog article titled, Identifying Server Jobs, where I reviewed what server jobs are, how you identify a job as a server job and where you can find documentation on server jobs. The information in that blog is still relevant and I’m not going to revisit that material, although you may want to review that older article for some background information.
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Posted: August 16, 2018 |
