Re: Job date on submitted jobs

[Luis Rodriguez <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx>]

James,

In the SBMJOB command the DATE defaults to the *JOBD value (which, in turn,
defaults to *SYSVAL). You should specify the desired date in the DATE parm,
not by changing the submitting job's date.

HTH,


Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:27 PM, James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>
> if you want to understand why that is, there are many good books on
> the design of operating systems. please pass them along to redmond
> when you're done reading them :)
>        - Paul Davis on ardour-dev
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