Whenever your jobs end in error, do they go on MSGW status,
blocking other jobs from running?
This was our common experience before we implemented
use of E-POLICE. E-POLICE is a free! and open source software
for the IBM i to automatically reply to jobs on MSGW status.
This software will monitor the QSYSOPR message queue for you.
From the website of easy400, the listed software components are:
E-Police is a collection of iSeries utilities dealing with out-of-line situations:
- Program Error Monitor
gets control over ILE-RPG program errors, sends an e-mail message to the appropriate application developer providing complete documentation (error profile, joblog, program source).
- Receive Message Queue
There are installations that are regularly bothered by system messages requiring actions (expecially from message queue QSYSOPR).
In most cases, the causes of the messages are very well known, and the actions are always the same.
Then, why not an automat taking care of these cases and documenting what was done?
- Mandatory activities
Some installations need some subsystems and/or some jobs be always active.
Command epolice/chksbsjob provides a way to implement such a requirement.
- Command EDBG
Boost up your debug.
You can download the software at the easy400 website:
http://www.easy400.net/epolice/html/start.html
I would rank this software as #1 in terms of reducing the
IBM i administrator's work.
