RE: Newbie Question

Can I ask why you want that information on a PC? Are you going to graph
it, or do you do it for sorting purposes of some kind?

Being new to the iSeries, you may not be aware of iSeries Navigator, which
is a pc based tool which will allow you, among many other things, to view
the contents of WRKACTJOB in a graphical manner.

If you do not have it installed on your PC, it should be available to you or
your system admin on a CD that came with the iSeries.

If you still feel you need the information in some other form on your PC,
then I'd suggest you narrow down what specifically you are looking for
(i.e., interactive jobs, batch jobs, etc..) and use APIs to pull it
directly from the system.

HTH

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephen Cochran
Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 8:01 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Newbie Question

Preface to say that I'm very new to the as400, stronger unix background.

I'm trying to write a small CL program that puts the output of WRKACTJOB
into a PC file so that it can be FTPed off the as400, ideally having the CL
program executed by the FTP script using RMCD. I have the basics down as
shown below:

WRKACTJOB OUTPUT(*PRINT)

/* Delay for 2 seconds for output to finish */
DLYJOB DLY(3)

/* Copy spool output to file KAF/WAJFILE */
CPYSPLF FILE(QPDSPAJB) TOFILE(KAF/WAJFILE) +
JOB(419900/USER/QPRTJOB) SPLNBR(*LAST)

DLTSPLF FILE(QPDSPAJB) JOB(419900/USER/QPRTJOB)

This will sometimes work, and sometimes not ending with a CPF3343 message. I
have tried ending a MONMSG line to catch those, but even putting a DLTSPLF
command in the MONMSG ends with the same error.

At this point I've tried just about every combination of options (using the
job name for JOB parameter, using SMBJOB for the WRKACTJOB command, etc) but
always run into some problem.

So my question is, what's the correct way to accomplish this? Being somewhat
new, code examples are always welcome. Thanks.