Re: Job date on submitted jobs

[Jeff Young <cooljeff913@xxxxxxxxx>]

James,
On your SBMJOB command, you must specify the date that you want it to use if not 
the current date.

I would suggest that in you CL pgm, you retreive the current job date before 
you issue the SBMJOB command and use that as your value for the DATE keyword in 
the SBMJOB command.
 
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From: James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: midrange-l <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wed, November 3, 2010 3:57:07 PM
Subject: Job date on submitted jobs

Hi everyone,

We've come across an unusual situation that we can't understand.  We're 
submitting a job after having first changed the job date using CHGJOB. 
The submitted job appears to be ignoring the changed job date. 
Specifically, we use CHGJOB DATE(103010) the set the date to October 30, 
then SBMJOB to run an RPGIII program that uses *date to populate a field. 
When submitted, the RPGIII program is populating the field with the 
current date, not October 30 as specified in the CHGJOB.

I know we've been using this technique for years to submit jobs with a 
modified job date and it has worked perfectly.  Can anyone tell me why it 
isn't working now?

James Rich

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