Re: Newbie Question

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There are a variety of ways to monitor one or more jobs on the system.  As a starting point for general monitoring I would suggest going to http://www.brucevining.com/Articles/Article_MCPress_Progamming.html. ; From there the two articles Keep Those Batch Jobs Running and Easily Identify What Message... may be of interest to you.  Another approach, if you are interested in monitoring for specific messages can be found at http://www.brucevining.com/Articles/Article_Systemi_News.html and then selecting Watching for Messages -- Made Easy. 

Bruce
Bruce Vining Services
507-206-4178

--- On Wed, 11/26/08, Stephen Cochran <stephen.a.cochran.lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Stephen Cochran <stephen.a.cochran.lists@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
To: "Midrange Systems Technical Discussion" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, November 26, 2008, 12:05 PM

The purpose is to have some automatic monitoring for error conditions (MSGWs
and jobs that should be active at all times).

We did look into using Monitors through iSeries Navigator, but it kept
crashing and we could never actually get a monitor working.

So we're pulling the file over to a linux box and using perl parse the file
and notify us. Again, I have read that perl can be installed on an as400,
but that would be a whole different can of worms ;)

Steve


On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Shannon ODonnell <
sodonnell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Can I ask why you want that information on a PC?   Are you going to graph
> it, or do you do it for sorting purposes of some kind?
>
> Being  new to the iSeries, you may not be aware of iSeries Navigator,
which
> is a pc based tool which will allow you, among many other things, to view
> the contents of WRKACTJOB in a graphical manner.
>
> If you do not have it installed on your PC, it should be available to you
> or
> your system admin on a CD that came with the iSeries.
>
> If you still feel you need the information in some other form on your PC,
> then I'd suggest you narrow down what specifically you are looking for
> (i.e., interactive jobs,  batch jobs, etc..) and use APIs to pull it
> directly from the system.
>
> HTH
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Cochran
> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:01 AM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Newbie Question
>
> Preface to say that I'm very new to the as400, stronger unix
background.
> I'm trying to write a small CL program that puts the output of
WRKACTJOB
> into a PC file so that it can be FTPed off the as400, ideally having the
CL
> program executed by the FTP script using RMCD. I have the basics down as
> shown below:
>
> WRKACTJOB OUTPUT(*PRINT)
>
> /* Delay for 2 seconds for output to finish */
> DLYJOB     DLY(3)
>
> /* Copy spool output to file KAF/WAJFILE */
> CPYSPLF    FILE(QPDSPAJB) TOFILE(KAF/WAJFILE) +
>             JOB(419900/USER/QPRTJOB) SPLNBR(*LAST)
>
> DLTSPLF FILE(QPDSPAJB) JOB(419900/USER/QPRTJOB)
>
> This will sometimes work, and sometimes not ending with a CPF3343 message.
> I
> have tried ending a MONMSG line to catch those, but even putting a DLTSPLF
> command in the MONMSG ends with the same error.
>
> At this point I've tried just about every combination of options
(using the
> job name for JOB parameter, using SMBJOB for the WRKACTJOB command, etc)
> but
> always run into some problem.
>
> So my question is, what's the correct way to accomplish this? Being
> somewhat
> new, code examples are always welcome. Thanks.
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