RE: Seeking inspiration ...

What's a "fully-qualified job number"? A job number is just a six-digit number. You can't name an object with just a number, as it has to start with a letter or certain special character (@, #, $). If you mean fully-qualified job name, then that won't work, as it is a length of 26.

Yes, you can find out the submitter's information from the Retrieve Job Information API (QUSRJOBI) using format JOBI0300. I suggested using a user index because you can use the submitter's fully-qualified job name as the key, indexes are very fast, and you only need one object to accommodate all jobs for this purpose. As Jon's request seems to involve only a small amount of data, this could work. As Jon has said that the environment variable suggestion won't work for him, the user index suggestion is better than a user space, data area, or stream file because of naming restrictions (well, the stream file would be cumbersome and comparatively very slow). As others have suggested, a data queue might also be viable, having some of the same advantages of the user index.


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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lampert
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2012 14:14
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Seeking inspiration ...

I haven't been following this too closely, but am I to understand that there's a SBMJOB involved, and that the submitting job needs to pass data to the submitted job?

I may be mistaken, but I vaguely recall that there's a way for a submitted job to find out what job submitted it, without having to be told explicitly. If that's correct, then you could use the fully-qualified job number of the submitting job as the name of a *DTAARA, *USRSPC, or *STMF.

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