by Dawn May | May 26, 2015 | Systems Management, Troubleshooting
One of the presentations I give often covers the various ways you can monitor your IBM i partition using IBM provided tools.
I talk about Navigator Monitors as well as the older Management Central Monitors (well, not any more…). But I also talk about watches.
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by Dawn May | Jul 16, 2014 | Work Management
Quite some time ago, I wrote the blog IBM i 7.1: Jobs Exceeding Their CPU or Storage Limits are Now Held. Earlier this year, the question was asked: “Hi, What if we WANT the job to end if it exceeds the max CPU? Can this be specified in the class?” I try to respond to most of the questions that are asked and this blog article provides an answer to that comment.
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by Dawn May | Aug 12, 2013 | Documentation
I like birthdays, even as the numbers get larger. I’ll admit that I like to get birthday presents; I like to give them too. This week marks the 4th year of the “i Can” blog, so this week’s blog is a gift of reading material.
The reference material in this blog is a bit dated, but I left it in place as some of these links are still useful. I will write a 2020 version at some point.
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by Dawn May | Nov 28, 2011 | Service, Troubleshooting
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Job Trace, followed by an update on how you can instrument your applications for IBM i job trace. Job trace is but one of many tools used to collect diagnostic data on i.
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by Dawn May | Sep 20, 2011 | Service, Troubleshooting
When you have a problem you need to resolve, how you approach doing problem determination depends upon the actual problem. IBM i has a very rich set of diagnostic tools for problem determination purposes.
In this week’s blog, I’ll talk about what is called the “job trace facility.”
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