Re: Alert if job queue backup

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You might want to take a look at our iEventMonitor - [1]www.kisco.com/iem

It does include a feature that will watch a job queue for it getting
backed up.

Rich Loeber - @richloeber
Kisco Information Systems
[2]http://www.kisco.com

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On 3/31/2016 8:26 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

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!)
[3]http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rbam6/wchmsg.htm?lang=en
[4]http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/apis/pm1c.htm?lang=en

You could roll your own with this
[5]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
[6]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.


Rob Berendt

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1. http://www.kisco.com/iem
2. http://www.kisco.com/
3. http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/rbam6/wchmsg.htm?lang=en
4. http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/apis/pm1c.htm?lang=en
5. http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_ibm_i_72/apis/qusljob.htm?lang=en
6. http://www.amazon.com/System-APIs-Work-Bruce-Vining/dp/1583470697