Re: Can you suppress the error printing with QSH running in batch?

Hi Dennis,

I can only guess, but... maybe it's because you specified LEVEL(*SYS)? LEVEL(*SYS) is like an initializer... the first time you use an environment variable in a given job, all of the variables are initialized by creating *JOB level variables from the *SYS level variables. Aside from that inizializing, the *JOB level ones are what's used for everything.

So if you did ADDENVVAR LEVEL(*SYS), then QSH within the same job, there's a good chance that QSH wouldn't see the envvar.

Instead, do ADDENVVAR LEVEL(*JOB), then QSH. (If you want to set it in your current job *and* in the system-wide initializers, then run ADDENVVAR twice, once with LEVEL(*JOB) and once with LEVEL(*SYS) so you don't have to sign off...)

If that's not it, then I'm not sure what to say... I don't remember when the feature was added, so maybe it wasn't in V5r3? (But I *think* it's been around longer than that...!)


On 3/18/2010 2:48 PM, Dennis Lovelady wrote:

You can control QSH output with the QIBM_QSH_CMD_OUTPUT environment
variable.

Or if you prefer, to log the messages you might do something like this:

ADDENVVAR ENVVAR(QIBM_QSH_CMD_OUTPUT) +
VALUE(FILEAPPEND=/var/log/tomslog.txt) +
REPLACE(*YES)
QSH CMD(...my-cmd...)

In that case, it writes the messages to a file, which might be useful
for troubleshooting.

I had not heard of this (or had forgotten), Scott. Sounds great. But I did
try it just now on a V5R3 system, and no file was created. My file happened
to be /home/Lovelady/logs/qshlog.txt (and all directories exist, and
permissions are set, yada yada). This was a new session (had not used QSH
yet), and I entered and exited QSH several times thereafter. But the file
doesn't seem to be created.

ADDENVVAR QIBM_QSH_CMD_OUTPUT
VALUE('FILEAPPEND=/home/lovelady/logs/qshlog.txt') LEVEL(*SYS) REPLACE(*YES)

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Dennis Lovelady
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