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Program Error Monitor
Receive Message Queue
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E-Police In a crowdy iSeries, it takes just a few e-police patrols to make life easier.
E-police patrols don't look for fines, they care for solving accidents, for answering to bothering questions, for making sure that some important shops are working, and ... they do all that at no charge.

by Giovanni B. Perotti (Italy)
Introduction
E-Police is a collection of iSeries utilities dealing with out-of-line situations:
  1. Program Error Monitor
    gets control over ILE-RPG program errors, sends an e-mail message to the appropriate application developer providing complete documentation (error profile, joblog, program source).
  2. Receive Message Queue
    There are installations that are regularly bothered by system messages requiring actions (expecially from message queue QSYSOPR).
    In most cases, the causes of the messages are very well known, and the actions are always the same.
    Then, why not an automat taking care of these cases and documenting what was done?
  3. Mandatory activities
    Some installations need some subsystems and/or some jobs be always active.
    Command epolice/chksbsjob provides a way to implement such a requirement.
Prerequisites
  • Operating system release V5R2 or subsequent
  • ILE-RPG compiler (just for the initial installation)
Note- SendMail functions are included, therefore MMail utility is not required.
Installation procedure
  1. Signon to the iSeries with a SecurityOfficer-like user profile
  2. CRTSAVF FILE(QGPL/EPOLICE) AUT(*ALL)
  3. From the Easy400 download page download file epolice.zip to your PC and unzip it
  4. Use FTP to copy PC file epolice.sav to save file QGPL/EPOLICE
  5. MD DIR('/mmail') DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
  6. MD DIR('/mmail/temp') DTAAUT(*RWX) OBJAUT(*ALL)
  7. RSTLIB SAVLIB(EPOLICE) DEV(*SAVF) SAVF(QGPL/EPOLICE)
  8. STRREXPRC SRCMBR(INSTALL) SRCFILE(EPOLICE/QREXSRC)
    It will perform the following:
    1. creates a compile program in library EPOLICE
    2. runs command EPOLICE/COMPILE that creates the necessary modules and programs
    3. runs command EPOLICE/INSTALL to complete the installation by
      • restoring directory /epolice
      • creating directory /epolicedta
      • creating and populating library EPOLICEDTA with local files
      • creating and populating library MMAILDATA with a few objects, if necessary
      During this phase, the installation process will stop two times:
      • The first time it displays the HTTP directives that you must install later on in an Apache HTTP instance of your choice (See the Note below). These directives are in the IFS stream file /epolice/apache/httpdirectives.txt. If you like, you may press this to display them.
      • Then it asks you the DNS name (or the IP address) of such an HTTP instance, inclusive of any non-standard port number (e.g. 192.168.0.2:1214 ).
        You may update later on this piece of information by using command EPOLICE/DNSNAME.
      Note- The e-mail messages sent by E-Police allow to display error data via HTTP. This is why you need an HTTP instance containing directives for E-Police.
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