Dear Rudi
>>>> That is no need to upgrade to IBM i 7.5 first. AJS is free of charge for any version from 7.1 up. <<<<
I would like to add that their is also a requirement that IBM i customers at V7.x must also have an active IBM i SWMA to be able to order these additional free SW products in case they do not go for SW release upgrade order (which also requires an active SWMA).
>>>> 2. Order the upgrade for 7.5 yourself, most likely those keys will be generated for all version automatically. <<<<
May I ask if you have a first-hand experience in the "automatic generation" part or not? I ask this because the last time I ran IBM e-Config tool about 2 years ago (too long, I know), when a SW release upgrade order for the customer was run and the SW part of the BASE config did NOT contain the newly requested free SW products, by default e-Config would do the upgrade order only for the SW that existed in the base config and no more. So, if the customer wants additional free SW products they never had before, these new free SW must be selected manually from e-Config tool for the target config so that these new SW are included for the target config in the order for loading which leads to the generation of their corresponding licensed keys. This manual selection of all the free SW products applied to a new system order as well. There were only a few free SW products at that time - QU1 was an example, but now there are plenty more.
So, my past experience with e-Config tool was that the fact that an IBM i SW was free of charge did not mean that e-Config would order them automatically for us - UNLESS e-Config tool changed its behavior in the recent past and this is why I ask you my question above.
I would be obliged if you would help update me on the current behavior of e-Config tool on whether the tool now orders these new free SW products for us automatically?
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Original Message:
Sent: Wed January 18, 2023 05:58 AM
From: Rudi Van Helvoirt
Subject: Mirroring of Job Schedule entries
Hello Edward,
That is no need to upgrade to IBM i 7.5 first. AJS is free of charge for any version from 7.1 up.
There are two ways to get the AJS key:
- Order all the free of extra charge product through your BP:
Price Decrease on Select IBM i SW Products
- Order the upgrade for 7.5 yourself, most likely those keys will be generated for all version automatically.
Good luck with implementing AJS.
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Rudi Van Helvoirt
Original Message:
Sent: Wed January 18, 2023 05:02 AM
From: Edward Camilleri
Subject: Mirroring of Job Schedule entries
Hi Rudy
yes correct we use the traditional - WRKJOBSCDE
Will move to AJS - I discovered its free on v7r5. Currently we are still on v7r4, so we will move first to v7r5 later this year and then we can implement AJS.
thanks for your help
Regards
Edward
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Edward Camilleri
Original Message:
Sent: Wed January 18, 2023 03:14 AM
From: Rudi Van Helvoirt
Subject: Mirroring of Job Schedule entries
Hello Edward,
When talking about "the job schedule entries" I assume you refer to the WRKJOBSCDE command. Since the Advanced Job Scheduler (AJS) 5770JS1, now comes with your IBM I entitlement, The answer for your problem is there.
What we do in such environments is separate the system scheduled jobs from the application scheduled jobs. This can be done with AJS by creating an AJS environment on the *iASP. When switching you do no longer have to worry about the WRKJOBSCDE entries. The AJS *iASP environment only needs the monitor to get started.
In the end you have on every node in the cluster an AJS data library as they call it in the product in *SYSBAS, and only one AJS data library in the *iASP.
Creating an AJS data library can be done in the Heritage Navigator for i.
IBM is working on getting AJS in the New Navigator for i.
We use AJS in QSTRUP when powering down and even for switching in the cluster. Yes I am a big fan of AJS and I see moving away from the WRKJOBSCDE entries to AJS as a modernization step in the System Management area.
I hope this helps.
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Rudi Van Helvoirt
Original Message:
Sent: Tue January 17, 2023 07:08 AM
From: Edward Camilleri
Subject: Mirroring of Job Schedule entries
Hi
In a Geomirror environment, how do you keep the job schedule entries in sync on all the nodes? Is there an automatic way besides manually?
I could not find any entry in the administrative domain for job schedule entries.
We have an IBM i v7r4 cluster with 2 nodes.
Thanks
Edward
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Edward Camilleri
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