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Overview

This course describes how to manage several object types that play an important role in work management: job descriptions, job classes, job queues and output queues.

The course begins by describing various tasks you can perform in managing job descriptions. You see how to create, display, change, and delete a job description. The course then shows how to perform these same tasks for job classes. The course ends by describing how to create job queues and output queues.

Approximate Study Time: 90 minutes

Objectives

After completing this course, you should be able to:

• Name and describe the values that are stored in a job description
• Create, copy, display, modify, and delete a job description
• Name and describe the values that are stored in a job class
• Create, copy, display, modify, and delete a job class
• Create and delete a job queue
• Name and describe the attributes that define an output queue
• Create, copy, modify, and delete an output queue

Topic Outline

Working with Job Descriptions

Working with Job Classes

Working with Job Queues

Working with Output Queues

Audience

This course is intended for anyone responsible for managing the system activity of an IBM i system. System administrators, system programmers, and system operators would be personnel operating in this job capacity.

Prerequisites

This course assumes that you have a basic knowledge of IBM i facilities. You can satisfy this prerequisite by successfully completing the courses in the Introduction to the IBM i Environment series.

In addition, you should have an understanding of IBM i work management concepts and system values. You can satisfy these prerequisites by successfully completing the first two courses of this series:

• Work Management Concepts
• Working with System Values

Related Products

A Student Reference Guide is available for the series that contains this course.

This course is contained in the Work Management for System Administrators series.

This course is contained in the System Administration Combination Pack.

See Creating an Application Environment (ASEC05), in the IBM i Security series, for another perspective on creating job descriptions and output queues. That course describes how to create a secure environment for a new application, including the security aspects of job descriptions, output queues, message queues, libraries, directories, and device descriptions. In contrast, Subsystem Workflow and Job Control discusses the available options for jobs descriptions and output queues in greater detail. It also covers classes and job queues and the commands used to manipulate these objects.