If you’ve changed attributes of the QCTL subsystem and lost track of what the defaults should be, or worse yet you’ve changed the controlling subsystem in some way that the system refuses to IPL properly, there’s a little known “backup” version of the controlling subsystem called QSYSSBSD. It’s specially protected so that it cannot be changed, only displayed. It’s always there, in the QSYS library, waiting for you “just in case”.
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6/30/09 There's a backup version of the controlling subsystem (QCTL)
10/29/08 WRKACTJOB - The SBS parameter
When using the WRKACTJOB command, the SBS parameter defaults to *ALL, but you can use this parameter to show one, several or many subsystems.
For instance, the following command will show jobs associated with three different subsystems:
WRKACTJOB SBS(QBATCH QBATCH1 QBATCH2)
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