Re: Monitoring Threads in a Job

[Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Chamara,

I haven't written a program that "monitors threads", so the best I can 
do is take an educated guess.

API documentation is found under "Programming / Application Programming 
Interfaces" in the Information center.  When you know what you want to 
do ("monitor threads") but you don't know which API to call, then I'd 
suggest clicking on "APIs by Category" so you can see the types of APIs 
available:

So, at this point, if you've clicked IBM i 7.1 Information Center / 
Programming / Application programming interfaces / APIs by Category, you 
should be here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/apis/aplist.htm

Notice that there's a category relating to "work management".  Work 
management relates to how the operating system manages it's workload 
(subsystems, jobs, threads, etc).  So it seems a likely candidate.  So 
click "Work Management APIs".  That will put you here:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/topic/apis/wm1.htm

In this API list, I see several APIs that might be helpful.  Granted, 
there isn't a "Get all threads in a subsystem API", but there are APIs 
that say:
"List Active Subsystems"
"List jobs"
"Open List of Threads"
"Retrieve Thread Attribute"

Surely, these APIs, when used together in a program, would be able to 
accomplish your purposes?

Please let me know if that helps.


On 7/5/2012 11:31 PM, Chamara Withanachchi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to monitor Threads in side a job from a RPG program is there a
> methoud/API to achive this.
>
> Thank you in advanced