Re: Monitoring for MSGW

[Paul Bailey <PabloMotte+Midrange@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you all for your responses.

I've now realised that both using the QUSLJOB API and monitoring the
QSYSOPR message queue with RCVMSG only find the batch jobs in MSGW but not
interactive jobs, so I've convinced management that checking regularly is
just as good as being immediately notified and I'll stick with my current
method for batch jobs. I'll need to find a different method to detect
problems in interactive jobs where the users can't/won't report them, so
does anyone have any advice on this? I may have to suggest adding a PSSR
routine to all the RPG we have, and I would really like to avoid that!
Several people mentioned commercial products for monitoring systems - do
any of them detect inquiry messages on interactive jobs?


-Paul


On 22 September 2016 at 14:43, Paul Bailey <PabloMotte+Midrange@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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