Basics of batch job monitoring, production support of AS400
I am assuming that the reader of this article is new to IBM i world. Congratulations on landing up in IT and working with IBM i (As/400 system). There are multiple websites which can help you in understanding batch job monitoring in IBM i, in this article I am trying to share whatever I have learnt over the past few years of my experience in IBM i (also known as AS/400). --> You can start with WRKACTJOB command, this command will show all the subsystems, job queue, jobs running in those job queue. Once you have located where your job is, you can use option 5 to pull a list of options. On this list you can find 3 important options, option 1, option 11, option 14 If you select option 1 - you will be able to see what is the job name, number and the user who submitted this job. Another good thing that you can see, if you hit page down is what command the job is executing. If you select option 11 - you can see the call stack of program ( what is a call stack ? --> Its basically the