Re: Batch Submissions from RPGIV

[pcunnane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

     An approach I use quite often is to have a CL program that can submit 
     itself to batch.  The approach is to RTVJOBA TYPE(&JOBTYPE); if the 
     job is running interactively (&JOBTYPE = '1'), then SBMJOB CMD(CALL 
     [same pgm] PARM(&PARM1...) ).  The RPG program just calls the CL with 
     all the required parameters, and it (the CL) handles the submission.
     
     I don't think a little CL program is necessarily a 'waste' if it makes 
     the RPG code a lot cleaner... just my EUR 0.02...
     
     As for using LDA - isn't that, well, deprecated?  There are so many 
     legacy apps that dump stuff in the LDA, and expect it to still be 
     there later, that a program using the LDA to pass parameters to a  
     submitted job really needs to restore it to its previous state 
     afterwards.
     
     ____________________
     Paul Cunnane
     The Learning Company


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Subject: Batch Submissions from RPGIV
Author:  JFinney@omnia.co.za at InterNet
Date:    11/15/99 8:17 AM


Hi All,
     
I have a procedure which needs to submit another procedure to batch. Now I 
have done simple compile-time tables in
 conjunction with calling QCMDEXC but this has been without passing parms.
Now I need to pass +-35 of them and I'm, well,
stumped on this one. I really don't want to have to create a CL proc just 
to perform this action ( seems a waste. Call a pgm to call
 a pgm to batch). Is there any API which I could use to do this ?
     
Any help forthcoming would be appreciated
     
Regards
John.
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