Re: Monitoring QSYSOPR

["Simon Coulter" <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ted,

(Copied to the list for archival reasons)

You wrote:
>Thanks for the reply.  I posted the same message on midrange.com list.
>Someone told me I could setup a special IBM name designation of QSYSMSGQ
>and that might help in that it stores critical messages that don't
>normally get recorded in QSYSOPR.  Such as "CPF0907 Serious storage
>condition may exist. Press HELP." Although I think he's wrong about this
>one, because I've seen this in QSYSOPR before. ;)

The special message queue is actually called QSYSMSG (no final Q) and it
does receive critical messages but IN ADDITION to QSYSOPR.  Critical
system messages always go to QSYSOPR.  The point of QSYSMSG is to allow a
message monitor program to easily filter out non-critical messages.  If
you have created the QSYSMSG message queue then critical messages will go
to both QSYSOPR and QSYSMSG.

>I'm mainly interested in my backup message:
>
>Date  . . . . . . . . . :   102/04/18
>Time  . . . . . . . . . :    3:05:05
>Job . . . . . . . . . . :   BCKUP
>User  . . . . . . . . . :   QSECOFR
>Job number  . . . . . . :   714115
>Message ID  . . . . . . :   CPC3707
>Message text  . . . . . :   36 libraries saved at 04/18/02 01:01:48.

Since the job name is not a device name I presume you run this backup from
a batch job.  In that case you will find the same message in the joblog of
your backup job.  Simply receive the completion message after the save and
send it where ever you like.  For example:

        SAVLIB .....
        RCVMSG MSGTYPE(*LAST) ..... RMV(*NO)
        SNDPGMMSG .....
        (or page someone, or e-mail them, or SMS them, or whatever ...)

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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