IBM i enhancements

You can now use the Dynamic Workload Console and conman showjobs command line to check if an IBM i job is waiting for a reply to a message.

An IBM i job that is waiting for a message reply is in the SUSP (suspended) status. This status indicates that the job is running while waiting for input. When the input is received, the job status changes to EXEC (executing).

You can also view the IBM i job message that is waiting for a reply. The message text and the reply are written in the corresponding IBM Workload Scheduler job log, so that the IBM Workload Scheduler operator can see the exact message that the IBM i job is waiting for a reply to.

You can specify the name of the queue where the monitoring agent component runs by using the MonitorQueueName property in the native job launcher section of the JobManager.ini file. If you do not specify this property, the default queue (QBATCH) is used.

For more information, see Scheduling jobs on IBM i systems.