A new set of PTF’s are now available for JobQGenie Version 5.1. The new PTFs add significant improvements to the product and its ease of use. Although some of the fixes are related to errors found in the base product many of them are enhancements built as a result of customer requests.
The PTF’s are cumulative in nature so you only need to download the latest PTF to get all of the updates. If you already have 1JG5101 installed you can install 1JG5102 and it will automatically apply the initial PTF to *PERM status.
Some of the enhancements we have delivered with these PTF’s
Recovery of Internal Job Id’s after an IPL
If jobs are on job queues and an IPL is performed the system will allocate new Internal job Identifiers to these jobs. As the jobs will have been logged when the job was loaded to the job queue we need to ensure the new Internal job Id’s are registered in the database over the old ones.
Additional Job Status Data collected
A job can have different status on the job queue such as *HELD, we have added a new collection process that checks the jobs status on the job queue as it is loaded and then when it is changed.
Reduced Messaging
In a highly volatile environment the messaging carried out by JQG can cause the message queues to fill very quickly, we have added a new flag which when set reduces many of the status messages generated by JQG.
Improved data mining for recovery
When a request to find affected data for a particular job is run, the product would look for all transactions in the entire receiver chain of the available journals. Now the process will look for the relevant journal receiver before requesting a list of affected data.
Additional filtering capabilities
We have added new fitering capabilities to allow better and easier management of the stored job data. The addition of a position to option allows the user to quickly move to predetermined positions in the db files which in turn save a lot of time especially in very active environments..
Improved error logging
While the error messaging did allow the user to determine the cause of errors it did not provide all of the information available. The new process will now provide complete error information when any error messages are logged.
New automated resubmit routines
If a system fails or a role swap occurs with jobs still sitting on the source job queues those jobs need to be reloaded to the target systems job queues. A new command has been created which will review the Database files looking for any job which has a job queue status and reload those jobs to the relevant job queues automatically.
The product continues to improve and as more customers ask for further improvements we will add those requests to the future product development process. Our intention is to deliver any improvements via the PTF process instead of waiting for a new release before bring out the new functionality. If you would like to trail the product it is available for download via the members download pages. The downloaded product will automatically generate 30 license keys on installation.
Chris…