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  3. February 2002

Re: How to get Process Control Space for a job

From: Steve Richter <srichter@autocoder.com>
> Vernon,
> this mi code will get the pcs pointer of the job that runs the instruction:
> DCL SPCPTR pPcsArea
> DCL DD PcsArea CHAR(16) BDRY(16)
> SETSPP pPcsArea, PcsArea
> MATPRATR pPcsArea, *, X'25'
> CPYBWP YourPcsRtnVlu, PcsArea
>
> To my knowledge, Factor 2 of MATPRATR can only be "*".  So this instruction
> will not get the pcs of another job.
>
> One workaround for this restriction is that if you are going to want the
pcs
> pointer of a job, somehow have that job run MATPRATR at job start and store
> the result in a usrspc.

One can also walk the Work Control Block Table as described in
chapter 9 of my eBook on MI at http://iseries400.org and get the
PCS of any job.

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