RE: jobnumber in a cl

midrange-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>  11. jobnumber in a cl (Hatzenbeler, Tim)
>
>I doubt this is possible, but I have seen you guys come up with some great
>ideas in the past...
>
>I have a CL, that submits a job, is there any way, to retrieve the job
>number of the submitted job?
>
>With out modify the submitted job to pass back the job number via
>parameters, or data area or file...  I would like to avoid customizing the
>called job...

Tim:

Test the following program:

--------------- Begin pgm -------
pgm

   dcl        &JobUser        *char    10     value( ' ' )
   dcl        &MsgId          *char     7     value( ' ' )
   dcl        &MsgDta         *char   128     value( ' ' )
   dcl        &MsgDtaLen      *dec  (   5 0 ) value( 0 )

   rtvjoba    user( &JobUser )

   sbmjob     cmd( SNDMSG MSG(HI) TOMSGQ( &JobUser ) )  +
                job( TSTSBMJOB )

   rcvmsg     msgtype( *COMP ) rmv( *NO )  +
                msgdta( &MsgDta )          +
                msgdtalen( &MsgDtaLen )    +
                msgid( &MsgId )

dmpclpgm

   if ( &MsgId *eq 'CPC1221' )    do
      sndpgmmsg  msg( 'Got it.' ) topgmq( *EXT )
   enddo

   call       QCMD

return
endpgm
--------------- End pgm ---------

Note that submitted job number should be found in positions 21-26 of the 
&MsgDta variable after the *COMP message is received from the program message 
queue. Compare the dumped contents of &MsgDta against the message description 
of CPC1221 for more detail.

There are numerous variations on this. This is a fairly simple one, but perhaps 
instructive enough.

Tom Liotta

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