No, Gary, those parameters are for the variables to store information from the current job. They cannot be used to specify another job.
Help text (last sentence is the important bit):
The Retrieve Job Attributes (RTVJOBA) command is used in a CL
program or REXX procedure to retrieve the values of one or more job
attributes and place the values into the specified variable. The
attributes are retrieved for the job in which this command is used.
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Sean Porterfield
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gary Thompson
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 09:51
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Subject: RE: Finding the job date of another job
Jeff,
RTVJOBA JOB(MYJOB) USER(ME) NBR(123456)
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff.Nyco
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 7:39 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: RE: Finding the job date of another job
RTVJOBA is exclusively for the current job.
I would write a CLP with the following steps:
a) DSPJOB to *PRINT. The spoolfile contains: Date Entered System, Date
Started, Job Date
b) CPYSPLF to a PF
c) RCVF each record until I found the string containing to line-label I
was looking for
d) You may also require the date-format ... search for 'DATFMT'
e) Extract the date-data, pass values back to the calling program
It's a bit of a phaff I know, but the CL is simple enough; with a command to simplify the passing of the Job-Id and receiving the return-values, easy to incorporate it into other CL programs.
I can hear the purists screaming "API's" at me and I take your point if it's performance, but API's can be so much trickier to code, and whether the GETJOBA command takes 1ms or 1s, it's usually not a hill of beans.
Regards
Jeff Bull
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Crosby
Sent: 02 August 2012 13:43
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Finding the job date of another job
RTVJOBA
On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Charles Sallee
<csallee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
I am trying to find a way in a CL to determine the job date of another
(a different) job from the one I am currently running. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Chuck Sallee
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