Starting the Observe job

To let HULFT accept a request from a remote host, you must start the Observe job first.

The Observe job starts only if the System Environment Settings file (HULENV) is recognized. The job does not start if a parameter error occurred at startup.

At the time of startup, some parameters are handed over from resident jobs to the jobs to start. For details, refer to the following:

HULFT10 for IBMi Administration Manual : HULFT System Startup and Stop

For more information on the System Environment Settings file, refer to the following:

HULFT10 for IBMi Administration Manual : System Environment Settings

Program interface

SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(Library name/HULOBSD) 
   [PARM(['LIB=Library name'] ['OUTPUT=filename'])]) 
   JOB(HULOBSD) JOBQ(Library name/HULJOBQ)

Explanation of parameters

LIB=Library name

Library name in which HULFT is installed ("HULFT" by default)

Specify this parameter as an alphanumeric character string of 10 bytes or less starting with an alphabet.

OUTPUT=filename

Destination of the messages that the Observe system outputs (Optional)

Specify this parameter in the format of Library name/File name(Member name).

The number of log records that a log file can retain is unlimited.

If omitted, the log is output to the file specified in the System Environment Settings.

For details, refer to the following:

HULFT10 for IBMi Administration Manual : Message Log Settings

= Remarks =

For the message with message output parameter (OUTPUT) specified, refer to the following:

HULFT10 for IBMi Error Codes and Messages : Messages

Note

When you start the Observe job, setting the CCSID (Coded Character Set Identifier) to a value other than 65535 may cause incorrect behaviors in the communication to/from the Send Acknowledge job or the Receive Acknowledge job and in the access to records in management information.
If you set the JOBMSGQFL (Job message queue full action) to "*NOWRAP", HULFT resident jobs may not work in some cases when the Job message queue becomes full.