Re: QSYSWRK (and QUSRWRK)

[Justin Taylor <jtaylor.0ab@xxxxxxxxx>]

We start QUSRWRK in QSTRUP.


date: Thu, 28 Jan 2021 11:21:24 -0500
> from: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: QSYSWRK (and QUSRWRK)
>
> I have the same question as this:
>
>
> https://www.mcpressonline.com/forum/forum/operating-systems/ibm-i-os-400-i5-os/9684-qsyswrk-subsystem
>
> Namely, what starts the QSYSWRK subsystem, despite not being in the
> startup program?
>
> Yes, I read the answers provided, and I can issue the WRKSBS command
> and inspect individual subsystems (like QCTL and QCMN), and I can do
> options 3 and 7 (autostart job entries and routing entries,
> respectively), but I don't know what I'm looking at there.
>
> Is Carsten's answer essentially: "Don't worry about it; just accept
> that it works"?
>
> Finally, I am pretty sure QUSRWRK is not automatically started on our
> system. What is the preferred way to avoid having to start this
> manually after each IPL? Add it to the startup program? Or something
> else?
>
> (The included sample startup program, QSYS/QSTRUP, does explicitly
> start QUSRWRK (right after QSERVER), so that suggests putting it in
> the startup program wouldn't be a *bad* way.)
>
> John Y.