Re: jobnumber in a cl

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim

Use RCVMSG after the SBMJOB is run.

RCVMSG MSGTYPE(*LAST) RMV(*YES) MSGDTA(&MSGDTA) MSGID(&MSGID)

should do it. Check that the &MSGID is CPC1221, which is the completion 
message that is sent. The job number is located at position 21 of the 
&MSGDTA variable.

How's that for magic? You also get job name at position 1, job user at 
position 11, job queue to which submitted at position 27, and job queue 
library at position 37. What I did to find this again (I never remember) 
was to SBMJOB CMD(WRKSYSSTS) and see what message was returned. Then 
DSPMSGD told me what the message data was and how it's laid out.

HTH
Vern

At 03:03 PM 4/2/2004 -0800, you wrote:
> I doubt this is possible, but I have seen you guys come up with some great
> ideas in the past...
>
>
> I have a CL, that submits a job, is there any way, to retrieve the job
> number of the submitted job?
>
> With out modify the submitted job to pass back the job number via
> parameters, or data area or file...  I would like to avoid customizing the
> called job...
>
> Thanks, Tim