Re: Finding the job date of another job

Heh. I use RTVJOBA all the time. I prompted it before replying earlier,
saw the JOB/USER/NBR parms and thought I could put them in. But you can't.
Those parms are returned. Need caffeine . . .

If one has the TAATOOLS available, there are the RTVJOBA2, RTVJOBA2A, and
RTVJOBA2B commands that will return job attributes for any job on the
system. There are 3 commands because the number of parameters exceeds the
maximum that may be passed to a CL program (used for the command
processing program).




On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Jeff.Nyco <jeff.nyco@xxxxxxx> wrote:

RTVJOBA is exclusively for the current job.

I would write a CLP with the following steps:

a) DSPJOB to *PRINT. The spoolfile contains: Date Entered System,
Date
Started, Job Date
b) CPYSPLF to a PF
c) RCVF each record until I found the string containing to line-label
I
was looking for
d) You may also require the date-format ... search for 'DATFMT'
e) Extract the date-data, pass values back to the calling program

It's a bit of a phaff I know, but the CL is simple enough; with a command
to
simplify the passing of the Job-Id and receiving the return-values, easy to
incorporate it into other CL programs.

I can hear the purists screaming "API's" at me and I take your point if
it's
performance, but API's can be so much trickier to code, and whether the
GETJOBA command takes 1ms or 1s, it's usually not a hill of beans.

Regards

Jeff Bull
iSeries Technical Consultant
NYCO Ltd - iSeries & AS/400 Automation Specialists
Tel: +44(0)20 8416 3778
Fax: +44(0)20 8416 3779
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Subject: Re: Finding the job date of another job

RTVJOBA


On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Charles Sallee
<csallee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

I am trying to find a way in a CL to determine the job date of another
(a different) job from the one I am currently running. Any ideas?



Thanks,

Chuck Sallee
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