RE: Alert if job queue backup

Rob,

I'm in the same boat, I'm going to miss MPLUS
Really interested in which road you go down.
Help systems has acquired Halcyon, which will be the no cost replacement product for MPLUS.
Robot also has their solutions, also from Helpsystems.

I've still not viewed the demos.

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Paul


-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2016 8:26 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Alert if job queue backup

There are numerous third party products out there right now. We are interested in replacing Message Plus (because it's been EOL'd). This is what we're using now. They're pushing a replacement product from Robot.
In general I am wary of their products as generic beer on a champagne budget but I'll take a look at it.
I will never buy another LXI product again so I won't look at theirs.

Using what comes with the OS:

WRKWCH is a possibility. But that would be more for monitoring a message queue. Like QSYSOPR for a job stuck in MSGW. (A big reason why many job queues start stacking up!) http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rbam6/wchmsg.htm?lang=en
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/apis/pm1c.htm?lang=en

You could roll your own with this
http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/apis/qusljob.htm?lang=en
If you're just getting started with API's you may want to look at
http://www.amazon.com/System-APIs-Work-Bruce-Vining/dp/1583470697
IDK if COMMON has such a session this time. A casual glance led me to believe not.

IBM Navigator for i has some monitors. Like for disk arm utilization and whatnot but nothing elementary for job queues getting stacked up or anything like that.
IBM Navigator for i does have a message queue monitor. You could set up a monitor for a message in qsysopr and send an email to yourself.


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Date: 03/31/2016 07:44 AM
Subject: Alert if job queue backup
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HI is there a way to get an alert if a job queue has a bunch of jobs
waiting?
In our system this could indicate an issue.