IBM i Services have become quite popular, and it has become typical for new and enhanced services to be included with IBM i announcements. STACK_INFO is one of the new services that is part of the recent IBM i 7.3 TR3 / IBM i 7.2 TR7 announcement.
(more…)In the 7.1 release, the Work with Job (WRKJOB) command was enhanced; you can determine this by going to the CL Command Finder and take the option to display “All changed commands.” The Knowledge Center will show you a list of changed commands and you can read the documentation on the command. Of course, there’s a slight problem in that commands are not change-flagged, so you cannot actually see what changed. You need to compare the command documentation with that of the prior release to figure out exactly what has changed. IBM finally started change flagging commands with the 7.4 release.
(more…)Wait accounting is the patented technology built into IBM i that tells you what a thread or task is doing when it isn’t doing anything. This is an IBM i exclusive that’s possible because the Rochester (Minn.) development lab develops all the layers of i.
(more…)IBM i has always had the capability to display the call stack associated with a job. When threads were introduced on the system, call stacks were provided on a per-thread basis.
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