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Status Future consideration
Workspace Self Service Tool
Created by Guest
Created on Apr 12, 2023

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Schedule Server to Stop and Start through SST

Currently the SST allows to set the scheduling of the server to either Trigger at a certain time or to Start and Stop within the 24 hours.

We would need the ability to schedule the Data Extract Server to be stopped during the weekily DB Reorg being done by IBM Team and start after this period. This is requiring us to put in a schedule for every day of the week as the Scheduler only allows to Start and Stop within a 24hours.

Please advice if any option in SST that will enable the scheduler to Stop the server for a short period of time and then Start.

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How will this idea be used?

To have an option to schedule the server to be stopped for a certain period of time of a day of a week and keep it running on all other times and reduce the intervention of Stop and Start during the DB Reorg activity.
  • Guest
    Jun 28, 2025

    I'd also add the option to schedule a restart of the agents to the above. And to give more capability to do these on a weekly (or selecting the day(s) of the week) basis rather than only giving times as an option.

    This is specifically in response to an issue we had following the weekly MQ maintenance when there appears to be a longer than usual gap between one MQ server going down and the standby taking connections (from what we could see from the JMS monitoring screens). Whilst we would not normally plan to restart the agent / integration servers, we have seen issues on multiple occasions following the MQ maintenance, with one or more agents losing connection to their queues and not reconnecting.

    We have been doing a proactive restarts the following morning but the timing of the maintenance means that in our timezone, this is typically completing around midnight and so it's a few hours until we are logging in and doing the manual restart. Being able to schedule this for an earlier time would reduce any business impact if it were occurring due the maintenance.

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