RE: swap QTEMPs

That's why it is important to restore the QTEMP to its original value before
the job ends. My little program allows you to do just that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Guthrie [SMTP:GaryGuthrie@home.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 10:57 AM
> To:   MI400@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: swap QTEMPs
> 
> I want to reiterate a point I made when I originally commented on the
> technique.
> 
> Failure to restore the proper library pointers in the job structure can
> result in HIGHLY UNDESIRABLE results. Leaving a bogus QTEMP pointer in
> the job structure when the job ends means that another job can (and
> likely will) use the changed job structure, and this job will be
> completely unaware that it has a bogus QTEMP pointer. Not a good thing!
> 
> Gary Guthrie
> 
> 
> 
> Jim Langston wrote:
> > 
> > That sounds exactly like what I would like to do.
> > 
> > Create a library such as DEBUG and be able to
> > attach job's QTEMP to this library instead of QTEMP.
> > 
> > Would you have any sample source on how to do this?
> > 
> > If it already passed in this message list, could someone
> > repost it?  I seemed to have missed.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Jim Langston
> > 
> > leif@attglobal.net wrote:
> > 
> > > <SNIP>
> > > This is a great debugging feature. You start a batch job and now
> > > you want to check what is writes to its QTEMP. Start an interactive
> > > job, create a permanent library, say, DEBUG, then attach DEBUG
> > > as QTEMP for the batch job and watch what the batch job is
> > > doing by inspecting files in DEBUG.
> > 
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