RE: WRKWCH for MCH3401 - system jobs QMSF and QTSMTPCLTP triggering the watch thousands of times.

There is actually two issues here.

1) Only IBM's mail programs (QMSF and QTSMTPCLTP) are throwing MCH3401, and then code was written to filter them out.
Is that acceptable?
None of IBM other LPP throw MCH3401.
I remember on an old PMR which included why are MCH3401 appearing in the joblog, IBM's response was application error that needs to be resolved.

2) The second issue would be a valid RFE for an enhancement when STRWCH is performed to give it more flexibility for including user jobs or excluding system jobs.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bryan Dietz
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2018 4:35 PM
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Subject: Re: WRKWCH for MCH3401 - system jobs QMSF and QTSMTPCLTP triggering the watch thousands of times.

push back on "working as designed", I hate that cop-out reply.

If you really think it's broken keep at it. Present your case.

Bryan



Steinmetz, Paul wrote on 10/11/2018 3:28 PM:

Long story short, WAD.
RFE needed on STRWCH to either to be able to select all user jobs or omit system jobs.

Paul

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Subject: RE: WRKWCH for MCH3401 - system jobs QMSF and QTSMTPCLTP triggering the watch thousands of times.

Opened PMR with IBM.
IBM support recreated the issue.
QMSF, QTSMTPCLTP, and possibly other jobs are trapping the MCH3401, messages never appear in their joblogs.
The WRKWCH, however, is picking these up.
Waiting on response from a CPS B5ELFJ for MSF and SMTP developers to respond to why the messages are being generated but suppressed from their joblogs

Paul

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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Rob Berendt
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2018 3:56 PM
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Subject: Re: WRKWCH for MCH3410 - system jobs QMSF and QTSMTPCLTP triggering the watch thousands of times.

Open a ticket. Either IBM needs to fix this or figure out a better way to
write code to check for an object's existence with some method which will
not trigger such an error. But I'm thinking there's something which needs
to be fixed and not just an error trapping coding improvement.


Rob Berendt