Re: Oops JOBQ perceptions

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Good gosh, Al, you must be the world's fastest typist, otherwise how would you
ever get any real work done?  Do you have a secretary type all this in from
your dictation?  Voice recognition software?

Well, I can take the easy ones...

>1) If I put stuff in QTEMP before launching JOBQ, then I sign
>off, does the batch job have access to that QTEMP story like
>it has access to what was in the LDA when I launched it, or
>is any QTEMP access by a batch job totally independent of the
>interactive job that created the job?

A lot of people seem to have a hard time believing this, but QTEMP is alive
only for the job (i.e. each different job number is a distinct job).  Doesn't
matter whether you sign off or not, nothing ever, EVER copies from one job's
QTEMP to another job's QTEMP.  Can't be done.

>2)...
Correct.  Variables will not pass between jobs without the benefit of passing
them as parameters or in a data area.

>3-B ) Right around the point that an interactive job does a submit
>batch job, can it retrieve the identity of the job just launched

  SBMJOB     CMD( ...
  RCVMSG     MSGTYPE( *LAST ) MSGDTA( &MSGDTA ) +
               MSGID( &MSGID ) MSGF( &MSGF ) +
               MSGFLIB( &MSGFLIB )
  CHGVAR     VAR( &JOB  ) VALUE( %SST( &MSGDTA   1  10 ))
  CHGVAR     VAR( &USER ) VALUE( %SST( &MSGDTA  11  10 ))
  CHGVAR     VAR( &NBR  ) VALUE( %SST( &MSGDTA  21   6 ))

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952

-------------------------- Original Message --------------------------
I have some trainee dumb questions here since I not often get into this area
& I just love to push the envelope of what I know how to program, provided
the educational detour won't take long to sink into my brain.

You know how, if you add message queue QSYSMSG it automatically captures
copies of the most serious stuff on QSYSOPR, are there any other "magical"
message queues like that, which we only know about if we been to the right
IBM class or studied the right manual?  QUPSMSGQ in System Value.

Well I added a message queue to receive confirmations that we did in fact run
some regularly scheduled stuff with what settings.  So far I only adjusted
the CL for one job & discovered in my testing that there were some holes in
what I thought I knew about  some basics.

After the CL verifies prompt criteria, but before actually doing anything
like launching itself into JOBQ or doing the job interactively, SNDPGMMSG to
my new message queue with a bunch of info that seems to be working fine in my
testing.

At completion time of the actual run, not interactive ends because JOBQ was
launched, I have a completion message in which I was hoping to have more
variables still populated not needing any refresh.

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          ***  Al's dumb questions *****
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1) If I put stuff in QTEMP before launching JOBQ, then I sign off, does the
batch job have access to that QTEMP story like it has access to what was in
the LDA when I launched it, or is any QTEMP access by a batch job totally
independent of the interactive job that created the job?

2) When I define a bunch of variables based on some prompt screen, then
launch same CL to JOBQ, bypassing the uniquely interactive portions of the
work in the next run, does the job lose all variables, and only have access
to what's in data areas with respect to work station or user, unless the
SBMJOB passes some specific parameters.  Thus, if I want to add a variable to
what is remembered, while interactive is running, populate *LDA or data area
with it, then when JOBQ portion is running, extract that *LDA area back into
the variable.  OCL/36 had a pass *ALL but that was just IBM's numbered
parameters, without CL flexibility in naming what *ALL is.

3) I would like the completed batch job to communicate
"I'm job 06884 running on QBATCH3 and I was called by 06840"
so by elimination I can see what got hung up some place
& if it was only QBATCH2 that got hung.

It is not unusual for us to fill the JOBQ with some scheduled jobs that are
identical except for facility then later question whether one particular
facility had all its stuff go to a satisfactory conclusion.  Also I am often
on several concurrent interactive sessions running various tasks in which
they can end up on different JOBQ, based on the programming & other factors.

I can capture RTVJOBA NBR(&JOBNBR) and other values and stick that some place
for JOBQ later match up, but I was wondering

3-A ) Does a batch job have a native RTV info on whatever launched me,
perhaps API like QSP-JOBQ? (I am a novice in API & not yet a programmer of
ILE REXX or UIM)

If we DSPJOB for a completed job#, Job Status Attributes second screen shows
me that Batch Job# 060884 was submitted by Interactive Job# 060840 ... could
the batch job 060884, while it was running, get at this info identifying its
060840 parent?

3-B ) Right around the point that an interactive job does a submit batch job,
can it retrieve the identity of the job just launched ... actually BPCS 405
CD does not do a simple SBMJOB, it calls a program to do the launch with
access to some other esoteric stuff.  I was thinking something like this
format

OVRJOBINFO     SAVE(&BATCHINFO)     WHERE(&BATCHWHAT)
Whatever the software is that launches to JOBQ from interactive
RTVJOBINFO    for whatever variables were specified in last OVRJOBINFO

in which in this example &BATCHINFO would contain the data I later saw on Job
Status attributes of the completed batch job, and &BATCHWHAT would contain
which JOBQ it was sent to.

4) Initially I had adjusted placement of pieces of story so it looks nice in
DSPMSG how I usually view messages, then later when I did DSPMSG QNITEHIST F4
F10 & look at some of this in *PRINT & *PRINTWRAP it did not look quite as
nice, although the big picture was more readable checking off all the right
steps did in fact run to a conclusion, than scrolling DSPMSG on-line, for the
one CL I messed with so far.

I see how to list INFO (severity 80) only.
Is there a way to list COMPLETION (severity 00) only?
Other than a separate message queue for each.

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I got into this interest because of the inability of existing job trails to
tell when was the last time we did job X, what settings were used, which
facilities, was it a full run or a limited run, was it in the right
environment, normal or simulated ... the values on the prompt screen.

I wear many hats in my job & one of them is some stuff that should be a no
brainer ... a variation of MRP CAP CST update runs with a slightly different
formula each nite of the week ... it seems like I may have missed a step or
run one wrong ... there is no way to tell ... I may have been so engrossed in
solving some programming puzzle that I missed the basics in one of my other
nitely jobs.

Also there is the recurring question "Al when was the last time we did ...."
& I answer I THINK I did that a week last Thursday.

I just plan to do this for the most critical jobs that need to be done very
regularly.

Alister William Macintyre
Computer Data Janitor etc. @ http://www.cen-elec.com
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