RE: Submit JOb

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 15 April 2002 5:20 am, Joe Pluta wrote:
> > From: Ren Fu Ping
> >
> > Dear Joe
> >     My Programm use display file I/O, I check all display input
> > value in RPG, and i use on parameter '0' &'1' to indicated
> > interactive and batch job. I want to program an CLP for calling
> > in RPG to change this job from Qinter to Qbatch, I have tried
> > your prompt, but only batch job generate with some log file, and
> > result spool file was generated by interactive job. any suggestion?
>
> Ping, if your program uses a display file, you will not be able to run
> it in batch easily.  From what I can understand, your program prompts
> the user for some values and then runs the program.  Is this correct?
>
> Then, if what you want to do is to run the program in batch, what you
> will have to do is first prompt the user for the parameters
> interactively, then submit the job and pass the parameters to the
> called program on the SBMJOB command.
>
> Joe

Ping

It sounds (unless I've completely lost the plot) like you want to have
the interactive job itself go into batch, rather than submit a copy of
itself to batch. Something like the equivalent of doing a Ctrl-Z then
typing bg on a Linux box to put the current foreground (interactive) job
into the background (batch). AFAIK it isn't possible to move a job from
one subsystem to another, only from one job queue to another before it's
been activated. The Batch/Interactive setting is set by how the job is
run and isn't user controllable[1].

About the only thing you can do is as Joe suggests. Put conditions around
all display file I/O and have the display file(s) put under user control.
Only open the display file & enable I/O if the job is run interactively,
otherwise keep the file closed and bypass display file logic.

Regards, Martin
[1] Unless you have Fast/400, that is ;-)
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