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Good Day, I am trying to build some APIs using Legasuite but I am getting some unusual errors and I am seeking advice. The first is a simple API that displays different information based on the request. The API will var out the variables from the screen.I have recorded this API step by step and when I step through the API in Legasuite, it works perfect. However, when I run it as " live gateway test" I get the these errors interchangeably - Unexpected unidentified screen error or "java.lang.ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException".    The second API works when ran as a "live gateway test" but it does not detect fields within the API to enter the data even though the screen is properly identified and the fields. It should be noted that it works when ran as the gateway test but only when deployed to the SIT environment doest his issue occurs and the API always fail.   It should be noted that these APIs are on the same connector and that there are other APIs with these APIs and those work perfect.

In terms of 'Journal Images' configuration as following screenshot, I have following queries: How Aldon defaults 'Journal Images' parameter when AS400 files/tables deployed to production?  If we use CHGJRNOBJ to change 'Journal Images' from *AFTER to *BOTH, is there any impact to the system? ------------------------------Nicolas Jin JinAIA Australia LimitedMelbourne VIC AU------------------------------

Hello In the past few days in the morning, I run Sync Check without checksum (always finished in about 5 minutes) and find one suspended object reported every time. When I look at the object, it's always the same table and I always activate it with *SAVRST and all appears to be fine.   But when I decide to look at spooled file of the Sync Check report, I see the following and am confused as to why there are 2 entries of the same file.   How do I interpret what is shown below?                                Attribute Difference Details                                                ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------             Path Name or     Source      Target      Object    Member/format/                             Group       Object           library     library     type      field name     Attribute                   --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hello I follow the instruction in iCluster Web 9.1.1 installation guide but I get an error in step 3 below.   I configure PuTTY with instruction from this IBM Technote :  SSH Tunnel configuration for use with IBM i Access Client Solutions at  https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ssh-tunnel-configuration-use-ibm-i-access-client-solutions Any guidance would be appreciated. ------------------------------Satid SingkorapoomIBM i SMERocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hello  I would like to share my observation on what I suspect was a bug in DMSTRSC in iCluster 9.1.0 compared to 9.1.1.   In  9.1.0, when I run DMSTRSC with RUNCHKSUM(*CLUSTER)  (= *NO from its value in DMSETSVAL), I notice in event log that some 17,000+ objects are checked for the replication group.    But when I run DMSTRSC in a later occasion for the same group with RUNCHKSUM(*YES), the event log message indicates that  18,000+ objects are checked.  And this explains why my colleague complains some data in DR system are different from DC system in my first run which I reported the incident in this thread :  https://community.rocketsoftware.com/discussion/my-surprising-discovery-about-dnstrsc-sctypefull After I upgrade 9.1.0 to 9.1.1, I run DMSTRSC with RUNCHKSUM(*CLUSTER)  (again = *NO), I now see the event log message indicating 18,000+ objects are checked which is what I see as a bug being fixed.   I cannot find this improvement described in iCluster document named   icluster_re

Hello The application in IBM i system that I manage does not use IBM i for any application data printing nor spooled file generating at all.  The app  produces all kinds of business reports as PDF files and distributes them out of IBM i to app client workstations through a WIndows server's repository.   All spooled files in IBM i are of system management information (QPJOBLOG and such) and nothing to do with the application output of any kind.    With this fact in mind, I want to reduce iCluster workload in having to keep track of print and spooled file data in QAUDJRN.   So, I remove *SPLFDTA and *PRTDTA entries out of the system value QAUDJRN while all replication groups are stopped.  But when I start back all groups, I notice the following messages in event log that iCluster add them back  !!                                                          iCluster Event Log                                                                                                                   

I have found when using the real time monitors option 8 from the main menu.    The information on the source system does not always match the target system.  at   times the number of S/O and OSS are different.  and when a file is refreshed the status is only show on the target system.  Basically we are back to using option 80 on the source system and option 81 on the target system . I thought that my DDM settings  might be the issues. so i set the ddm attributes to use *usrid on both systems and restarted the DDM server.     What cause the monitors to be different or is this something that will be corrected in a future release.  thanks. ------------------------------Duane GingerichSEAble-One Systems Inckitchener ON CA------------------------------

Hello I notice in the past entire week in iCluster event log many repetitive instances of this message (always appears in 8 occurrences for each new IFS file at issue):  18/09/23 08:03:21   COREPRO1 HAB1012 30 A BSF object was suspended with reason code RTV.18/09/23 08:03:21   COREPRO1 HAB1012 30 A BSF object was suspended with reason code RTV.18/09/23 08:03:21   COREPRO1 HAB1012 30 A BSF object was suspended with reason code RTV.18/09/23 08:03:21   COREPRO1 HAB1012 30 A BSF object was suspended with reason code RTV.18/09/23 08:03:21   COREPRO1 HAB1012 30 A BSF object was suspended with reason code RTV.18/09/23 08:03:21   COREPRO1 HAB1012 30 A BSF object was suspended with reason code RTV.18/09/23 08:03:21   COREPRO1 HAB1012 30 A BSF object was suspended with reason code RTV.18/09/23 08:03:21   COREPRO1 HAB1012 30 A BSF object was suspended with reason code RTV. I can see more than 100+ occurrences of this message from time to time. I guess

As you may have read in my previous post, this year our focus is enabling Rocket DevOps customers to embrace a new set of modern development tools in their IBM i environments. Tools such as Visual Studio Code, Git, Jenkins, and Jira are growing in popularity amongst IBM i developers, and we will continue to build on our current support in a way that makes sense to IBM i developers. Are you implementing, or planning to implement, tools like these? If you are, I would love to learn more about your plans & objectives for IBM i development in 2023. Your feedback on our products and solutions is vital so please let me know if you’d be willing to share your thoughts and would like to learn more about future releases of Rocket DevOps. Kind regards,Chris------------------------------Chris White Principal Product ManagerRocket Softwarecwhite@rocketsoftware.com------------------------------

Hi All, I am interesting and Finding the way about Performance Tuning Rocket iCluster V9.1 for Applying Journal Receiver on Backup Server. After PRD Batch Process running completed and then sent Journal Receiver to apply on DR site, but it takes a lot of time to apply Journal Receiver on DR site. How can I tuning and adjust somethings on AS400 server to Improve Performance for applying process faster. Thanks in advance for your response.  --------------------------------- Krittamate Srikhammul

Hello I'm starting to install iCluster Web Services for i and its manual I have  indicates I need to install RPM first by "Download RPM_for_ibmi.zip from the Rocket Community Portal".  I go to the commnunity portal and do a search with "rpm_for-ibmi.zip" and  found nothing.     Could iCluster team please point me to the URL I can download the file? Thanks. ------------------------------Satid SingkorapoomIBM i SMERocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

I notice that every time I run Sync Check - with and without RUNCHKSUM(*YES) - all Sync Check jobs always run on Primary Node.   This puts workload burden - especially when RUNCHKSUM = *YES - on Primary node.    But when I think about this, it makes more sense to me that all Sync Check jobs should run on Backup node because, in practice, it is where the workload mostly or always is much lower than the Primary node.   I would like to ask if these is any control parameter that enables me to choose WHERE Sync Check jobs run?  I look into DMSETSVAL and find none. Thanks. ------------------------------Satid SingkorapoomIBM i SMERocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hello The following help info for parallel processing of DMSTRSC catches my interest. So, I run DMSETSVAL and specify MANNUMJOBS to 5 as shown below and find a proper time to restart all my replication groups.  What job name or function name should I look for (in the backup node?) the next time I run Sync Check with checksum to prove the parallel processing?  Thanks.------------------------------Satid SingkorapoomIBM i SMERocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Hello I create a replication group for an application that has about 300 libraries in all, each name of which begins  with AAS.  Then I create INCLUDE spec for Object=*ALL, Type=*ALL, Library=AAS* and iCluster adds all 300 entries of each specific library name for me.  Then I remove the AAS* entry.  When I start the group for the first time, I see the following message in iCluster event log and iCluster shows the count of 3 for 'S/O'  : COREPRO1 OMI0234 20 iCluster cannot mirror content changes to user space AAS1/XVCLB.0001 because the user space is in the system domain. COREPRO1 OMI0234 20 iCluster cannot mirror content changes to user space AAS1/XVCLB.0002 because the user space is in the system domain.              COREPRO1 OMI0234 20 iCluster cannot mirror content changes to user space AAS2/X02LB.0001 because the user pace is in the system domain.                                                              A discussion with the app implementation team reveals that the app uses

In pre-production DC-DR systems, we did a test of workload switchover this weekend.  We started with restoring from tape updated app DB libraries from UAT over the existing app DB in DC system while iCluster replication group is stopped (both nodes still active).  When the restore was finished, I ran DMMRKPOS  and started the group back with USEMARKED(*YES)  because  I wanted to test Sync Check function to do the replication in this case. Then I ran Sync Check *FULL at primary node and saw more than 3,000 out-of-sync objects reported. Then I manually ran OOS Activation to replicate to backup node during the night time.     The next morning, we let a few test users enter some app transactions into DC node and when they finished, I checked that I saw no pending change application and we did iCluster and application workload switchover to DR node and users tested various app functions and surprisingly found that many functions encountered errors.  Then the app team member displayed some

Hello  When I create a replication group for the first time and use wildcard for INCLUDE spec such as library = XYZA3* (with *ALL for object name and type), I see that iCluster retrieves all corresponding library names into the INCLUDE list for me to save my time and the entry XYZA3* also remains in the list.   I ask the local iCluster specialist if I should leave the entry XYZA3* in the list and the answer is that if I leave it, any subsequent new libraries that match this wildcard name will be added automatically to the replication group without having to restart the replication group. (Sound nice!) This should imply that if I remove this wildcard entry from the group, I have to manually add the new libraries that match this wildcard name by myself in the future into the replication group definition.  I did a Google search to try to find any formal information from iClsuter web site to confirm this statement but was not able to find any.   I would appreciate any response to confirm

iCluster 9.1.0 in IBM i 7.4 with mostly latest PTF groups.  I first ran DMSTRSC *FULL with OUTPUT(*NONE) at DC system. There were more than 3,000 objects that were reported to be out of sync and I activated them all to DR system. Then 2 days later, I ran DMSTRSC *CHECKSUM with OUTPUT(*ALL) and saw there were about 250 out-of-sync objects that were activated to DR as well.  But this time, I wanted to see the Sync Check report and I ran DMSCRPT  with DETAILS(*YES) at DR node. The command took about 1 minutes to produce this 1-page report WITHOUT any details at all :  Then I ran DSPJOBLOG for my 5250 session and saw this error : What should I do to see the deatiled report of DMSCRPT with DETAILS(*YES)?  ------------------------------Satid SingkorapoomIBM i SMERocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

Once iCluster nodes are configured using a specific IP address, they will continue to use this IP address, however what if your network changes? How do you change the IP address used by iCluster? Luckily there is a TechNote on how to perform this procedure:   How do I change the IP Address of my node? Answer:            Stop all groups that use the node whose IP address is going to be changed by running the command DMENDGRP—End Cluster Operations for Group   From an active Node (e.g. Node Alpha), run the DMCHGNODE command specifying the Node name and the new I.P. address for the Node whose I.P. address has been changed. The node you are changing (Node Beta) must be active when you run this command. DMCHGNODE NODE(Beta) IPADDR('2.3.4.5') Go to the other nodes in the cluster and view the node that was changed to see they reflect the new IP address before continuing.   From an active Node (e.g. Node Alpha), end the node (Node Beta) by running the command DMENDNODE—End Cluster Operat

First I read from the help info that adding EXCLUDE spec can  be done only when the replication group is ended and I will do that.  The INCLUDE spec of an existing replication group looks simply like this :  Opt  Group       Inc  Object      Type        Library     Attr       GRPU3       INC  *ALL        *ALL        LIBA        *ALL       GRPU3       INC  *ALL        *ALL        LIBB        *ALL       GRPU3       INC  *ALL        *ALL        LIBC        *ALL There are about 30 libraries in all.   Now I want to add that ALL data queue objects in all these 30 libraries are to be excluded from replication.   The question is whether I can add only one entry for   EXC  Object=*ALL  TYPE=*DTAQ  Library=*ALL  Attr=*ALL  ?      (I was hoping I do not have to add 30 entries, each for each library but I cannot find any help info on this). If the answer is yes,  I hope I can add more of a single exclude entry like this for each object type for all libraries that I do not want to be replicated i

Hello I'm testing iCLuster in a pre-production machine by restoring a lot of updated files from User Acceptance Test system to pre-PRD system while turning off replication group. Then run DMMRKPOS and start the group with the marked position *YES.  Then I start Sync Check on the group and found around 3,000 OOS objects reported : When I do WRKACTJOB on primary system, there are several iCluster jobs running eating up a total of not more than 35% CPU power of P9 2-core PRD machine. CPU % Busy is less than 10% on the backup node DR machine (same HW capacity as PRD).  When I press F5, the OOS count reduce slowly. My question is whether there is a way available in iCluster's parameters that I can, say, increase the number of iCluster jobs doing OOS Activation task to speed up the process? Thanks in advnace for your response.  ------------------------------Satid SingkorapoomIBM i SMERocket Forum Shared Account------------------------------

I'm with a system integrator helping a bank replace its current core bank with a new one on IBM i and iCluster is used for replication from DC to DR machines.  We have installed the new DC and DR machines and is now in pre-production test phase.   My customer's IT team comes up with a test scenario for testing iCluster like this : 1) A few bank tellers enter test transactions they prepare in advance (open new accounts, deposit, withdrawal, etc.)  in DC machine while iCluster in running. 2) After 15 minutes, my customer cut the data link between DC and DR machines but all tellers continue enterining test transactions until they are finished (expect to be some 40 minutes more). 3) When telllers finish entering test transactions, DC-DR data link is restored. 4)  The customer waits until I confirm to them that the replication of all test transactions from DC are replicated to DR machine is complete before they shut down core bank application in DC and start it in DR machine and check if t

iCluster v9.1 was released in December 2022 with new features and functions that help administrators optimize their screen time.  Reviewing the Release Notes for 9.1 (available on our docs.rocketsoftware.com web site) we see the following listed enhancement categories worth noting:  (Actually, if you haven't downloaded and reviewed the iCluster 8.4 release notes, I recommend you do that too.  Remember that enhancements and fixes are brought forward so if you are coming from an earlier than 8.4 release, you can skip installing intermediary releases but don't miss what is included.) In V9.1 Changes and enhancements in Rocket® iCluster 9.1.0 Sync check and reactivation enhancements Network and communication enhancements Usability enhancements Fixed issues in iCluster V9.1.0 There are 22 cases and conditions that were fixed in the 9.1.0 release New Rocket® iCluster Web user interface (UI) I have shared a very nice screen capture below.  This is a view of the 'Overview' of the defined

From the screen of iCluster's WRKCSMON command, I notice only one file being suspended.  This file is being journalled to iCluster's HADJRN journal.  (Most files have their own journals created by the application itself.)  When I look at iCluster job (with a name of the replication group I create) at the Backup node that covers this suspended file, I find many instances of the following message in its job log : Message ID . . . . . . :   CPF4759       Severity . . . . . . . :   30      Message type . . . . . :   Sender copy                                      Date sent  . . . . . . :   25/08/23      Time sent  . . . . . . :   22:15:01                                                                            Message . . . . :   Write operation to member PZFACTJB failed. (C I)        Cause . . . . . :   The write operation failed because a record at relative   record number 10 of member PZFACTJB file PZFACTJB in library LIBA      already exists.                                        

Here is a video recording of the iCluster 9.1.1 Web installation using the 'web installer' on IBM i.  This is a brief walkthrough of the install process and should be used as a picture of the execution and usage.  Please include the iCluster Web 9.1.1 installation guide as a companion and your guide for all the steps and considerations.  Below is a direct link to a search in the docs.rocketsoftware.com to locate the current iCluster 9.1.1 Web install guide.  In the event the doc gets an update this will insure you find the current version.  Use the sub-link to open/download the entire document.  Don't forget to also update all your clusters to 9.1.1 so that all enhancements are available to the iCluster installation and new iCluster Web interface.   https://docs.rocketsoftware.com/search?labelkey=icluster_9.1.1&q=install Rocket does offer professional services to help you deploy iCluster to fully enable all of its replication and interface capabilities.  Simply contact your Accoun

We promoted a file last week and a few of the programs dependent to the file were not selected as a dependent object during promotion.  The missing dependent objects are defined in ACMS. The objects are not in File  . . . : PRTDEP    Library . : ACMSCTL   I know there is a command to rebuild the  dependent objects file, just can't remember what the command is.  We ran it probably 10-15 years ago; Anyone know what the command is? Thanks, Dave  ------------------------------David LunzmanLead Software EngineerSecurity Mutual Life Insurance Co Of NYBinghamton NY US------------------------------