What's new for V5R4
This release brings some exciting changes not only to the work management functions, but also to the Work management topic in the Information Center.
You now have more control over producing job logs.
The job log pending state has been available for many years. When a job log is in a job log pending state, no job log is produced. With the release of V5R4 the iSeries™ Navigator Job Properties - Job Log window has been enhanced so that you can now control how and under what circumstances the job log for a specific job will be produced.
If you prefer the character-based interface, the Work with Job Logs (WRKJOBLOG) command is a new command that you can use to manage job logs. When this command is run, the Work with Job Logs screen is displayed. From this screen you can display job logs, delete job logs, work with spooled files, and work with the job that is associated with the job log.
In the job description, the new attribute LOGOUTPUT specifies whether the job log is produced by the job log server, by the job itself, or not produced at all. If the job description specifies *SYSVAL for the LOGOUTPUT value, then the new Job log output (QLOGOUTPUT) system value is used to control how a job log is produced.
Additional information for call stacks is now available.
As of V5R4, the call stack has changed on both the iSeries Navigator and the character-based interface to add support for i5/OS® PASE, Java™, and LIC applications. Many existing fields have been renamed, reorganized, or overloaded to display a greater variety of data.
The Change Job (CHGJOB) and End Job (ENDJOB) commands can now operate on any current or completed jobs.
In earlier releases, the commands did not work for special jobs such as system jobs, subsystem monitor jobs, spool readers, and spool writers. This change unifies the way the system handles output (spooled) files.
The Work with Active Jobs (WRKACTJOB) screen has been enhanced.
You can now view the Current user profile on the Work with Active Jobs screen. This attribute is already available in the Active Jobs list of iSeries Navigator.
Several enhancements have been made to the Advanced Job Scheduler.
- The Work Flow Manager is a new tool that lets you define units of work that can consist of a combination of automated and manual steps. The units of work can then be scheduled or started manually.
- You can add multiple commands to a scheduled task.
- You have more control over the notification banner.
- You can use Advanced Job Scheduler to send an e-mail.
- You can distribute reports via the Basic Operations container.
The entire Work management topic has been reorganized and updated for the IBM i5/OS Information Center Version 5 Release 4 (V5R4).
The new Work management topic replaces the V4R5 work management manual that was available in the IBM® i5/OS Information Center Version 5 Release 3 (V5R3). This manual provided information about how to effectively manage the system workload by changing work management objects to meet your needs. It also provided guidelines for performance tuning, description of system values, information about collecting performance data, gathering system use data, using work entries, and scheduling batch jobs.
What's new as of January 2006
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To find other information about what's new or changed this release, see the Memo to users.
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Work management