Advanced Job Scheduler help

Thanks in advance.

1. Job Notification
   
2. Alternate Job
   
3. Displaying Job History

First of all, you need to specify a "Notification Command" for IJS to use when sending messages:

My IJS configuration uses a command called SNDICM. This command is defined to IJS via the CHGNFYJS command:

Change Notification Command (CHGNFYJS)

Type choices, press Enter.

Notification command . . . . . . CMD 'QGPL/SNDICM RCP(&RCP) MSG(''&MSGTXT'')'

Once you have defined a "Notification Command" to IJS you can then utilize the preexisting fields in the IJS job definition.

For example, I have defined a job to send messages for both a *NORMAL completion and an *ABNORMAL completion.

When this job finishes properly, IJS sends a message to SYSADM "Daily Prod BU 10 finished OK"

If it finishes with errors, IJS sends a message to SYSADMCRT "Daily Prod BU 10 had errors"

                            Display Job                             S02     
                                                           7/31/07   8:39:48
Remote location name . . . . :   *JOBCTL                                    
Start time and date:                                                        
  Beginning time . . . . . . :   *NONE                                      
  Beginning date . . . . . . :   *NONE                                      
End time and date:                                                          
  Ending time  . . . . . . . :   *NONE                                      
  Ending date  . . . . . . . :   *NONE                                      
Maximum run time . . . . . . :   *NOMAX                                     
Notification recipient normal:   SYSADM                                     
  Notification message . . . :     Daily Prod BU 10 finished OK             
Notification recipient abnorm:   SYSADMCRT                                  
  Notification message . . . :     Daily Prod BU 10 had errors              
Alternate job  . . . . . . . :   *NONE                                      
  Group name . . . . . . . . :     *NONE                                    
  Group sequence . . . . . . :                                              

Alternate Job:

In my example above I have specified *NONE for the Alternate Job. However, I could have specified another IJS job, and this job would only be executed when the job ends abnormally. This job could be defined to send out notification messages, start other jobs or anything else that you might want to do when a job ends abnormally.

Displaying Job History:

If you choose not to utilize the built in notification features, you can still query the IJS history log using the DSPLOGJS command.

For example the command:

DSPLOGJS PERIOD((*AVAIL *BEGIN)) SEV(20) OUTPUT(*PRINT) DETAIL(*FULL) JOB(D_BU10)

... will scan the IJS History Log and generate a report showing any message with a severity of 20 or greater for job D_BU10.

Here is an example of the report. (Sample re-created by editorial team may differ from actual log output.)

5722JS1	V5R3MO			Job Scheduler Log		S02		7/31/07	8:58:28
Page	1
Date	Time	Message	Sev	Text				Program
User	Type
8/02/06	2:28:55	BRM10A1	40	Control group D_PRDGEN10 type *BKU completed with errors. Cause . . . . . : Control group D_PRDGEN10 type *BKU completed processing but errors were detected. This may be caused from objects not being saved. Recovery . . . : See previously listed messages to determine possible causes for the errors and for any objects not saved				QIJSCEC	BACKUP
8/02/06	2:28:55	IJS6008	50	Command sequence 0030 for job D_BU10 group D_BU10 sequence 01 ended in error. Cause . . . . . : Command to execute was: STRBKUBRM CTLGRP(D_PRDGEN10) SBMJOB(*NO).				QIJSCEC	BACKUP
8/02/06	2:28:55	IJS6003	50	Job 268712/BACKUP/D_BU10 ended abnormally for job D_BU10 group D_BU10 sequence 01.				QIJSLRUN	BACKUP

Good luck!