What's new for V5R4

The job log pending state has been available for many years. When a job log is in a job log pending state, no job log is produced. With the release of V5R4 the iSeries™ Navigator Job Properties - Job Log window has been enhanced so that you can now control how and under what circumstances the job log for a specific job will be produced.

If you prefer the character-based interface, the Work with Job Logs (WRKJOBLOG) command is a new command that you can use to manage job logs. When this command is run, the Work with Job Logs screen is displayed. From this screen you can display job logs, delete job logs, work with spooled files, and work with the job that is associated with the job log.

In the job description, the new attribute LOGOUTPUT specifies whether the job log is produced by the job log server, by the job itself, or not produced at all. If the job description specifies *SYSVAL for the LOGOUTPUT value, then the new Job log output (QLOGOUTPUT) system value is used to control how a job log is produced.

As of V5R4, the call stack has changed on both the iSeries Navigator and the character-based interface to add support for i5/OS PASE, Java™, and LIC applications. Many existing fields have been renamed, reorganized, or overloaded to display a greater variety of data.

In earlier releases, the commands did not work for special jobs such as system jobs, subsystem monitor jobs, spool readers, and spool writers. This change unifies the way the system handles output (spooled) files.

You can now view the Current user profile on the Work with Active Jobs screen. This attribute is already available in the Active Jobs list of iSeries Navigator.

• The Work Flow Manager is a new tool that lets you define units of work that can consist of a combination of automated and manual steps. The units of work can then be scheduled or started manually.
• You can add multiple commands to a scheduled task.
• You have more control over the notification banner.
• You can use Advanced Job Scheduler to send an e-mail.
• You can distribute reports via the Basic Operations container.

The new Work management topic replaces the V4R5 work management manual that was available in the IBM iSeries Information Center Version 5 Release 3 (V5R3). This manual provided information about how to effectively manage the system workload by changing work management objects to meet your needs. It also provided guidelines for performance tuning, description of system values, information about collecting performance data, gathering system use data, using work entries, and scheduling batch jobs.