RE: work files in qtemp -- RPG400-L

Yep, and me :-)


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Subject: RE: work files in qtemp

Count me in as well!!

rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 18/05/2005 10:19:14:

> I'd like to see that code too.  That's 2 so far hehe.
> 
> Ron Power
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> Hi Vincent,
> 
> <snip>
> I agree that files in QTEMP can be a pain...however; in my shop we
have 
a
> product called PEEKPLUS  (from BYTWARE).  With the product, we can 
"Grab"
> control of any job (with permission) and copy those files out of
QTEMP. 
It
> can also see the LDA & insert other commands into the job.  It's a
great
> 'Fire Fighting' tool.
> </snip>
> 
> You wouldn't believe how easy it is to get hold of another job's QTEMP
> objects. In fact you wouldn't believe how easy it is to get hold of 
> another
> job completely! A while back somebody told me you couldn't 
see/manipulate
> objects in another job's QTEMP. Well that's a red rag to any
programming
> bull. :-)
> 
> By the end of the day I'd written three VERY simple CL commands (and a
> couple of processing programs in RPG) that allowed me to take control
of 

> any
> job in the system and then force it to issue any commands I sent it.
(I 
> had
> some fun sending naughty break messages to one of my colleagues, from 
the
> interactive job of another of my colleagues! Ooh the look on their 
> faces!!!
> Or sending a program call command and watching their faces as a screen
> appeared!!!)
> 
> On a practical note...
> 
> Once, at 3am I got a call about an overnight finance batch job falling

> over
> - a RPG program was trying to use a LF that should be in QTEMP (scoped

> over
> the PF there). Normally that's unfixable - have you ever tried to
create 
a
> LF in another job's QTEMP, and scoping it over the PF there? BIG smile

> from
> me, cancelled back to the CL, copied the LF into QTEMP of the batch
job,
> retried the call - 5 minutes later I was back in bed.
> 
> The commands I wrote are:
> STRJOBCMD - here you specify the job you want to take control of.
> SNDJOBCMD - here you send a command to that job. You can send as many
as 

> you
> want.
> ENDJOBCMD - here you release control.
> 
> I still use them when servicing a batch job and debugging it. If I get

to 
> a
> point where I want to see what's in a file in QTEMP I simply send a 
> command
> to CPYF it into a production library. I can even amend the data and
cpyf
> (*replace) it back again. All this while sitting on a break point! Boy

> does
> that make life easier.
> 
> Anybody who wants the source are most welcome. I'll even post the
whole 
> lot
> on the list if it's something that might be of use to people - but 
believe
> me, there is nothing to these programs.
> 
> Larry Ducie
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