Submit Job Schedule Entries Immediately

December 1, 2004 Ted Holt

The code for this article is available for download.

You can buy better job schedulers than the one that comes bundled with OS/400. Unfortunately for many of us, the OS/400 job scheduler is the only one we’re permitted to use. Because I recently found myself forced to work within that restriction, I wrote a command to overcome one of the built-in job scheduler’s limitations. Later I discovered that my new utility overcame a second limitation. It occurred to me that some of you might like to have this utility.

In “Job Scheduler’s Other Defaults,” I explained to Beau that

V5R3 CL Enhancements on V5R2

December 1, 2004 Hey Ted

I have heard that the V5R3 CL compiler enhancements would be moved to OS/400 V5R2. I have searched V5R2 PTF cover letters for more information, but without success. Do you have a PTF number for the V5R3 CL enhancements in V5R2?

–Bob

You can use the V5R3 compiler enhancements under V5R2, but you can’t compile them under V5R2. I checked with Guy Vig of IBM, who spoke about the V5R3 compiler enhancements at the recent COMMON conference. Here’s his reply.

There is a zero percent probability that IBM will ship updates to any pre-V5R3 release of the CL compiler to

Admin Alert: Tips for Dealing with Deleted Records in AS/400 Files

December 1, 2004 Joe Hertvik

One of the problems with OS/400 databases is dealing with deleted records. By design, OS/400 doesn’t remove deleted records from a file; it only marks the records as deleted. Deleted records continue to occupy file space, and special processing is needed to truly clear deleted records from a file, reclaim their storage, and compress the file for greater efficiency. To that end, here are four tips for dealing with deleted records.

Tip 1: Reorganize large physical files to get rid of deleted records.

To check if a file has a lot of deleted record space, you can run the Display