How To Start/Stop The Managed Agent On AS400

You can start/stop the managed agent from the command line (green screen) by following the steps below:

1. Start the QSHELL by typing STRQSH at the command prompt.
2. Change to the JDE_HOME/bin directory by typing <install_dir>/JDE_HOME/bin.
   *** The <install_dir> refers to the installation directory in the IFS
3. To start the agent enter: startAgent &
   *** The & allows the agent to start as a background job so that it will not stop when you leave the QSHELL
4. To stop the agent enter: stopAgent
5. To restart or bounce the agent enter: restartAgent

You will want to run this in your startup script with a user that has a job queue that is not able to be interrupted.  Because of this, QINTER is not a very good choice.  The user will also need the following permissions: *ALLOBJ, *SAVSYS, *JOBCTL & *SECADM.

Also covered on Oracle’s My Support page ID 659949.1

Tags: *ALLOBJ, *JOBCTL, *JOBCTL, *SAVSYS, *SAVSYS, *SECADM, as/400, EnterpriseOne - Security, Java, jde, oracle, QSHELL, QSHELL, STRSQH

Stubborn iSeries Jobs

I am not an iSeries expert…

However, since we use the iSeries for our E1 Enterprise Server I am required to use it more than I ever wanted to. Anyway, I have been doing some experimenting with the XML Kernel jobs that get started up, when one of the kernel jobs did not end when I issued the endnet command. So, I used wrkactjob and issued an endjob command with *IMMED. Well, after waiting a while it didn’t end. After about 30 minutes of trying other things and talking to our resident iSeries guru, I gave up and left for the day.

I got in this morning to find the jobs still “ending”. So, I did some looking through Google and found another command that I could try ENDJOBABN (End Job Abnormal).

Info from an article on ITJungle.com:

Tags: *JOBCTL, e1, enterpriseone, IBM i/System i/iSeries/AS400, iseries, jd edwards, jde, oracle, peoplesoft