Basics of batch job monitoring, production support - part 2
Hi AS400 aspirants ! Well this blog is actually a continuation of my last post, if you haven't read that I'd recommend you going through that first and come back again on this post. Here's the link to my previous post https://sortedibmi.blogspot.com/2020/12/basics-of-batch-job-monitoring.html Today we will try to understand - How we can find out if there is any issue or any job in MSGW. before we dive into that, let me first explain you what is MSGW (Message Wait status), In RPGLE, CLLE, there are standard exception handlers. ( We will talk about what's an exception handler in next post) if any command operation goes into error. But, what if the programmer did not add any exception handler in the program itself, at that instance system will jump in and say, ''hey programmer, you have a piece of code that is not behaving as you intended, could you please check ?" That's essentially how you get a MSGW status for a Job. So, let's go back to our or