Re: WRKJOB duplicate jobs

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

looks like the sequence is descending.

On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> This CL doesn't use the *print output as noted by Chuck but checks the
> messages (RTVMSG) to find the last job.
>
> I believe it needs a tweak and not a rewrite.
>
> Jerry
>
> On 3/16/2011 9:38 AM, CRPence wrote:
> > On 3/16/11 5:22 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > Your first problem is that you are using a command (WRKJOB), telling
> > > it OUTPUT(*PRINT), and trying to analyze that output.
> > >
> > > <<SNIP>>
> >
> >     Not necessarily.  For the subject "duplicate jobs" case, that
> > condition causes the CL WRKJOB request to fail with the escape message
> > CPF1069 "End of duplicate names." while having produced _no output_
> > except possibly the "Select Job" panel presented in an interactive job;
> > but even that can be avoided by specifying DUPJOBOPT(*MSG) on the Work
> > with Job request.  Thus for that case, WRKJOB OUTPUT(*NULL) /* if it
> > were supported */ might suffice for what is intended\analyzed.
> >
> >     The messaging can be used as a means to infer something about the
> > specified generic JOB() without having to use any spooled output or an
> > API; just limited in the capabilities that method provides, and CHGJOB
> > of a mundane attribute might be a better choice since no output is
> > produced when only one job [i.e. no duplicate job name] exists.  Little
> > different than a coded wait and looping on ENDSBS requests versus a
> > coded wait and looping on job status inquiries of the subsystem monitor
> > after just one ENDSBS request, awaiting completion of the CL ENDSBS
> request.
> > Regards, Chuck
>
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