Re: Job schedulers and activation groups

[Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx>]

I mentioned in a previous post in this thread that I'd seen mention of a 
way to convert from the old job scheduler (officially referred to as the 
OS/400 or i5/OS Job Scheduler).  I found what I'd seen at 
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/jscheduler/support.html

"5. When converting jobs from OS/400 or i5/OS Job Scheduler entries to 
the IBM Advanced Job Scheduler, do the following:

   * Enter: GO JS
   * Select: Option 5 (System controls)
   * Select Option 7 (Work with Operating System job schedule entries)
   * Most jobs will convert. Jobs that will not convert include:
         o jobs with omit dates
         o jobs specifying a system profile (QSECOFR, QSYS, etc) as the
           User Profile.
   * If you remove the omit dates by specifying *NONE on the OS/400 or
     i5/OS Job Scheduler entry, your job should then convert. Specify a
     non-system profile, and those jobs will convert. You may need to
     create a new User Profile with similar authorities to the System
     Profile to get these jobs to function as designed. You may also
     need to create a holiday calendar and change the job to use the
     calendar in order to omit the correct dates."


Note that there are no warnings about activation groups or the job 
ccsid.  Having just tried it I can state that at v5r4 it does not issue 
any warnings before, during or after the conversion.

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> /