RE: Job Date when calling CL/RPG/etc from Java using PCML

Gary,

Thanks very much for your suggestion, I have now done as you suggested and
written a job to run each night to CHGJOB the job date on the QZRCSRVSD job
and this is working fine!

Regards,

Nigel Gay,
Computer Patent Annuities.



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If you are at v5r2 or later, try the following (untested):

  Job[] servJobs = myAs400.getJobs(AS400.COMMAND);
  Date today = new Date();
  for (int i = 0; i < servJobs.length; i++)
  {
    servJobs[i].setJobDate(today);
  }

  If that doesn't work, you could perhaps write a CL/RPGLE program that
would run at midnight each night and do a CHGJOB on the QZRCSRVSD job.
That
way, you wouldn't need to do this in every Java program that calls an RPG
program.

HTH,
Gary

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> Subject: Job Date when calling CL/RPG/etc from Java using PCML
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>
> Hi,
>
> I have an application where I am kicking off a legacy RPG
> program from Java using PCML.  The RPG program is of course
> hugely complex and would be a lot of work to rewrite in Java.
>  This all works fine however I've noticed some very odd
> behaviour with the Job Date of the QZRCSRVS that the RPG
> program runs in.  What appears to be happening is:
>
> When TCP/IP is started by STRTCP, a QSTRTCP runs for a brief
> period of time and submits various other jobs.  We don't IPL
> our machine very often so this last ran on 13th Dec 2003.
>
> One of the jobs this kicks off is QZRCSRVSD, which seems to
> be a job for servicing Java-to-somethingelse program calls.
> This runs with job description QSYS/QZBSJOBD and since it
> continuously it unsurprisingly has a job date of when the job
> first started, so this is also 13th Dec 2003.
>
> Each time a Java program calls a non-Java program, QZRCSRVSD
> appears to kick off a new QZRCSRVS job which again uses job
> description QSYS/QZBSJOBD. However what is really odd is that
> the Job Date on this job is also 13th Dec 2003.  The Job Date
> field of the job description says *SYSVAL so it should just
> use the value of QDATE but this is definitely not what is
> happening.  I'm assuming that somewhere QZRCSRVSD it does a
> SBMJOB to kick off the QZRCSRVS job, and on the SBMJOB it
> specifies a value for Job Date.
>
> This is causing us some major headaches since we rely on Job
> Date being today's date.  Ending and restarting TCP/IP each
> day isn't really a viable option since this will end all
> connections to the server.  Does anyone have any inventive
> suggestions what we could do to fix this, without having to
> alter the RPG program to retrieve today's date in a different
> way (e.g. by passing it in as a parameter)?
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> Nigel Gay
> Computer Patent Annuities
>
>
>
>
>
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