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Posted by: Bob Cozzi
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Display Last IPL Date/Time
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Published: 18 Jan 2012
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Display Last IPL Date/Time Published by: Bob Cozzi on 18 Jan 2012 view comments(3)

I found this shortcut today while looking for the last IPL Date/Time on the system.

The old "Start CPF" (SCPF) job's start date/time is it.

DSPJOB JOB(QSYS/SCPF) OPTION(*STSA)

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Posted by: bdietz400
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http://bryandietz.us/iseries.html
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Posted: 8 years 2 months 18 days 8 hours 12 minutes ago

Here is the one I created years ago:

http://home.roadrunner.com/~jbmmdietz/misc.html
 PGM                                                          
 DCL        VAR(&DATA) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(150)                   
 DCL        VAR(&BIN) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(4) VALUE(X'00000096')   
 DCL        VAR(&CEN) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(1)                      
 DCL        VAR(&YY) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)                       
 DCL        VAR(&MM) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)                       
 DCL        VAR(&DD) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)                       
 DCL        VAR(&HH) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)                       
 DCL        VAR(&M) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)                        
 DCL        VAR(&SS) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(2)                       
 DCL        VAR(&FMT) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) VALUE('JOBI0400')    
 DCL        VAR(&JOB) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(26) +                   
              VALUE('SCPF      QSYS      000000')             
 DCL        VAR(&JOBI) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(16)                    
 CALL       PGM(QUSRJOBI) PARM(&DATA &BIN &FMT &JOB &JOBI)    
 CHGVAR     VAR(&CEN) VALUE(%SST(&DATA 63 1))                 
 CHGVAR     VAR(&YY) VALUE(%SST(&DATA 64 2))                  
 CHGVAR     VAR(&MM) VALUE(%SST(&DATA 66 2))                  
 CHGVAR     VAR(&DD) VALUE(%SST(&DATA 68 2))                  
 CHGVAR     VAR(&HH) VALUE(%SST(&DATA 70 2))                  
CHGVAR     VAR(&M) VALUE(%SST(&DATA 72 2))                
CHGVAR     VAR(&SS) VALUE(%SST(&DATA 74 2))               
SNDPGMMSG  MSG('The system was last IPL''d on ' || &MM +  
             || '/' || &DD || '/' || &YY || ' at ' || +   
             &HH || ':' || &M || ':' || &SS || '.')       
ENDPGM                                                    

Posted by: Viking
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Comment on: Display Last IPL Date/Time
Posted: 8 years 2 months 18 days 7 hours 14 minutes ago

Bob, yup that date/time seems correct on our system.

bdietz400, here's the rpg I have from somewhere way back when that also uses QUSRJOBI:

 

      //==============================================================*
      //  Display last IPL Date/Time
      //==============================================================*

     d #msg            s             50A   inz

     D #data           s            150A   Inz
     D #bin            s              4A   Inz(X'00000096')
     D #fmt            s              8A   Inz('JOBI0400')
     D #job            s             26A   Inz('SCPF      QSYS      000000')
     D #jobi           s             16A   Inz

      // Prototype for qusrjobi
     D qusrjobi        PR                  EXTPGM('QUSRJOBI')
     D #data                        150A
     D #bin                           4A
     D #fmt                           8A
     D #job                          26A
     D #jobi                         16A

      /FREE

        qusrjobi ( #data : #bin : #fmt : #job : #jobi );

        #msg = 'Last IPL: ' + %subst(#data:66:2) + '/'
                            + %subst(#data:68:2) + '/'
                            + %subst(#data:64:2) + ' at '
                            + %subst(#data:70:2) + ':'
                            + %subst(#data:72:2) + ':'
                            + %subst(#data:74:2) + '.';

        DSPLY %trim(#msg);

        *inlr = *on;

      /end-free

 

 

Posted by: bobcozzi
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Chicagoland
www.cozTools.com/qryfile
Comment on: Display Last IPL Date/Time
Posted: 8 years 2 months 18 days 6 hours 23 minutes ago

Looks like the QUSRJOBI API is another way to get to it too. I find that I so seldom need to know that info, that using the DSPJOB command is good enough--but good to know we can use the API inside a program  if necessary.