Hi Paul,
Mike Wills has some code on github for looking for MSGW jobs. It does so by generating a spool file of all active jobs and parsing the file.
https://gist.github.com/MikeWills/8549554
I took this approach, though heavily modified it. Our system will send an email out to the appropriate people and will send an email every 12 hours if the MSGW isn't addressed.
This method does generate a TON of FIN spool files which will eventually cause the program to error. In this case I monitor for that error and have the job resubmit itself if that condition is met.
Kurt Anderson
Lead iSeries Developer - Application Development, Service Delivery Platform
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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Bailey
Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 9:43 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Monitoring for MSGW
Hi,
I've been tasked with finding a way to notify relevant people the moment when *any* job goes into the MSGW status. The notification has to tell those people which job is in the MSGW status, when it entered that status and what the MSGID is (I also don't want to spam them with notifications!).
I am not interested in notifying anyone about jobs in the QSPL subsystem, but apart from that I want notification for any batch or interactive job on the local machine requiring a user's response to a message.
I've put together a small routine that loops forever using the QUSLJOB API which works (thanks to Eric Pell), but I'd prefer a different approach because continuously reading the job list over and over just seems like an awkward way to do what I want. Is there a way to have a program called (or dtaq/file added to) when any job in the system goes into the MSGW status?
Trigger, or exit point, etc?
Any tips, ideas, web searches I may have missed?
-Paul.
PS Eric Pell's code, an adjustment to code from "jamief", can be found
here:
http://www.code400.com/forum/forum/tips-techniques-tools-announcements/tips-for-the-iseries-as400/1227-use-the-qusljob-api-to-whip-thru-wrkactjob?p=51441#post51441
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