Re: jobnumber in a cl

Hi Tim,

> I have a CL, that submits a job, is there any way, to retrieve the job
> number of the submitted job?

When you submit a job it puts a message in your program queue that
contains the submitted job's name/user/number.  So, it's relatively easy
to retrieve that message and get the job id from the msgdta.  Here's a
sample:

     DCL VAR(&MSGDTA) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(26)
     DCL VAR(&JOBNAME) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10)
     DCL VAR(&JOBUSER) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(10)
     DCL VAR(&JOBNBR) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)

     SBMJOB CMD(CALL MYPGM)

     RCVMSG MSGTYPE(*LAST) MSGDTA(&MSGDTA)
     CHGVAR VAR(&JOBNAME) VALUE(%SST(&MSGDTA 1  10))
     CHGVAR VAR(&JOBUSER) VALUE(%SST(&MSGDTA 11 10))
     CHGVAR VAR(&JOBNBR)  VALUE(%SST(&MSGDTA 21 6))