Re: How to get the job atributes from a submitted job?

On 10/20/06, DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx <DennisRootes@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi, I'm having a problem copying a spool file because the program I'm
running calls another program that actually creates the spool file with a
different job name.
Basically, my program uses QCMDEXC to call a LAWSON command that submits a
job creating the spool file.  I've tried *LAST but it says there's no
spool file for the current job, which is true, so I tried OVRPRTF
SPLFOWN(*JOB) but then it says there are duplicate jobs found.   I also
tried the QUSRJOBI api but that doesn't help because you need the
qualified job name.  Can anyone think of a way to grab the spool file from
a job within a job?  Thanks!

Most of the Spool File commands (e.g. CPYSPLF) want a qualified job name.
That information is returned in message CPC1221, but if the submitting job
was called with a QCMDEXC, you're not going to have access to that message.
You can either:

Write a wrapper for your Lawson command, and extract the information there
(are you waiting on a completion message? How do you know when the submitted
job has created the spool file?)

Or

Use the List Spool Files API (QUSLSPL) to load a User Space with all the
spool files for a given user (you can actually subselect using User Data, OUTQ,
and some other fields).

You still have to figure out which spool file you're interested in,
but the qualified
job name can be output to the User Space.


If there is anything simpler, I can't think of it off of the top of my head.

HTH,

Chris
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