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 |
Before configuring multiple subsystems for your prestart jobs, you need to have a strategy for how to separate the work. In this post, I outline some options available for subsystem configuration.
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Posted: August 3, 2018 |
In my last blog, I wrote about Prestart Job Configuration Settings. The Display Active Prestart Jobs (DSPACTPJ) command can be very helpful to determine the values to use for those configuration parameters.
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Posted: July 24, 2018 |
Prestart job entries are shipped with default configuration parameters. This basic configuration allows the operating system to manage the prestart jobs and generally works well on small systems or environments with limited use. But as your environment gets larger and the use of prestart jobs increases, you will need to review these parameters and customize them. You can view and change your presetart job entries via the command interface or with the Navigator graphical interface.
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Posted: July 11, 2018 |
In my last blog I gave an introduction to, and some history about, prestart jobs. This week, I’ll review the prestart job entries that ship with the system in the QSYSWRK, QUSRWRK and QSERVER subsystems. For each of the prestart job entries, I have provided a link where you can find documentation related to that PJE.
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Posted: June 29, 2018 |
I’m sure you have a love/hate relationship with prestart jobs. They provide improved performance by allowing a job to be started prior to handling a work request and can be reused for multiple requests—but they can be difficult to manage. There are many aspects to consider with prestart jobs; this blog post is the first in a series on the topic.
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Posted: June 21, 2018 |
