RE: DSPJRN Discrepency - Watch Out!

[Kirk Goins <KirkG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I can see why it does it... These jobs can service 100's of users per
qzdasoinit job. 

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Kirk Goins
IBM Certified AS/400 Technical Solutions
Pacific Information Systems - An IBM Premier Business Partner
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Earl [SMTP:johnearl@400security.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2000 3:50 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      DSPJRN Discrepency - Watch Out!
> 
> If you do a DSPJRN command against a job, lets say QZDASOINIT, and
> specify the Job Name and the Job Number, you would expect that you'd
> only get records that match that particular Job Name and Number...  
> Not True!  You'll get all matches for QZDASOINIT (potentially
> hundreds).  If you're not carefull enough to check the job name on
> each journal entry you'll likely be fooled into thinking all of those
> entries were generaed by that one job.  
> 
> The Journal Managemnet folks at IBM claim that this is working as it
> should, and that if you specify user name as well, then you will get
> the subset you are looking for (true).  They will search their
> database by Job or Job/User or Job/User/Number but not by
> Job/*n/Number (as other OS/400 interfaces will).
> 
> You would think that if Job/*N/Number was not allowed, that the
> command validity checker would flag this as an error, but it doesn't. 
> :(  
> 
> Just thought some of you might like to know.
> 
> jte
> 
> 
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