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What Is Currently Running?

Before you perform an encyclopedia function that may cause contention, see which functions are currently running. You can determine what is running with operating system utilities or by viewing the log files created by the servers and utilities.

Each server and utility registers with the Message Dispatcher using the Message Dispatcher initialization file (usually named iefmd.ini). One of the parameters in the initialization file indicates the log location for the server or utility. The path and file name is defined by the value in the log location parameter concatenated with instance numbers. For example, the first instance of the upload utility would normally be named up1.01.

After determining what functions are currently running, view the appropriate log files to determine what user, model, and subset is being processed by the function of interest.