Re: submitting a job that submits a job with jobpty(x)

Rick,
The submitting user profile probably has a limit of 5...use WRKUSRPRF and
look at the highest scheduling priority for this profile...

Steve Landess
Austin, Texas
(512) 423-0935

>Rick wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I have a jobq set up like this:
>
> Seq  Job                       Max   ---------Max by Priority----------
> Nbr  Queue       Library     Active   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9
>  15  MLTFTPJOBQ  QGPL             5   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1   1
>
> the purpose of which is to run many different jobs through different
> threads of the jobq without stopping one another.
>
> I have several such jobs that are scheduled to run at certain times of the
> day.
>
> using addjobscde or chgjobscde is very limited in what you can do as far
as
> setting up library lists, jobptys, etc, so I only use the jobscde to
submit
> another job, with all the sbmjob parameters I need to run the actual job.
>
> My problem is that I think that i'm not getting the second submit job in
> the proper job prty thread.
>
> To test, i created a CLP that does nothing but 'wait 400' seconds.
>
> Then, I submitted it like this to simulate the job being submitted from a
> jobscde:
>
> SBMJOB CMD( SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(STOPJOBQ)) JOB(SBM4) JOBQ(QGPL/MLTFTPJOBQ)
> JOBPTY(4))
>        JOB(SBMJOBD) JOBQ(QGPL/MLTFTPJOBQ)
>
> it submitted the first job to pty 5 (the jobd default), which then
> submitted the call to STOPJOBQ, supossedly to JOBPTY(4).  problem is, I go
> to the job in QBATCH subsystem, and it says it's running under 5, not 4
>
> subsequent submits of the same command sit behind that submit, in pty 5.
>
> what gives?   does anyone have any ideas about how I can get this to work
> properly?
>
> thanks,
>
> Rick