If you are open to 3rd party products, feel free to take a look at our Halcyon Message Management Suite. In addition to polling selected message queues for messages you would like to react to, you can also poll QHST. We can look for CPF1124 and 1164, you can specify a variety of omit criteria, and we can the perform a number of actions when the select and omit criteria is met. More details can be found at:
http://www.halcyonsoftware.com/suites/messagemanagementsuite/index.html
Martin A Norman
Halcyon Software Inc.
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message: 3
date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 15:24:56 -0700 (PDT)
from: bll1981 <bll1981@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Monitoring job start and end
Business is looking for a way to monitor all jobs on our systems. An external
batch group wants records of all our job start and completion message data. The
only central place I know of where this can be collected is the history log
(filtered by CPF1124:CPF1164). Problem with the hist log is that its not
available in pure database form or I am not aware of it without writing some HLL
program. I have experimented with the convert history log TAA tool, and it
essentially does what we need. However, this means I must conglomerate and sync
up this data on close to 100 partitions. Question: Any alternative suggestions
for collecting this data from a central location? Something like a recurring
QHST poll, not a point in time build. I am not a developer, but for those that
are do you have any suggestions or knowledge of a JT400 class that can access
history log data from a remote source (not an iSeries of course)? My preference
would be the easiest way to either retrieve this data remotely from a central
source, or retrieve/convert it locally to a database file that could be accessed
remotely via ODBC or sent via NDM etc. One of the goals was to do this without
serious programming or employment of a 3rd party product. At this point I am
open to third party prods that might do this however I am doubtful any exist. Of
course there are many vendors that read the QHST log for security information
and other events, but not a blanket over any submitted job, I would think?
Thanks
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