Re: How to programmatically submit a job and know its job number

John

Now that you added the requirement to be able to cancel a job before it runs, I think you really want the job notification exit point. You can be notified when a job goes on a job queue, where you can decide whether to let it run.

Here's the documentation - http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/ssw_i5_54/apis/xjobntfy.htm

This will run independently of your CL. Which raises another question - if your CL knows whether to cancel something it submitted, why not just NOT submit the job under those conditions?

NEI - the opposite of TMI!

HTH
Vern

On 10/5/2014 12:26 AM, John Yeung wrote:

Thanks, Alan. The RCVMSG technique seems reasonably easy, and
accomplishes precisely what I'm asking.

The accounting code is definitely very nifty, but from my reading of
it, I don't think it works for my purpose. It looks like it's a way
for the submitting program to pass information to the submitted job;
and that information can't be acted upon unless and until the
submitted job runs. The big thing I want to be able to do is
programmatically cancel the submitted job before it runs.

And, while it's very cool to know, and could come in handy in very
specific situations, I find the accounting code to be a bit too clever
for most uses I can think of. For anything I'm likely to do, I might
as well just use a regular parameter on the called CL.

John Y.