Re: Work with Job Schedule Entries

["Albert York" <albertyork@xxxxxxxxx>]

An API is always better. I didn't know there was one for retrieving scheduled job info.

Albert

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> Subject: Re: Work with Job Schedule Entries
> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 14:15:24 -0500
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> egads!  Back in the stone ages I used to try outputting to spool files and
> copying to physical files, etc.  And then I'd get burned by IBM changing
> the layout of the print file from one release to another.  And, with
> multiple machines running different versions of the OS I didn't want
> multiple versions of the programs.  I think that was my first foray into
> APIs.
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> You could write a command to do what you want by using the WRKJOBSCDE
> command and sending the result to a print file, extracting the parameters
> from the print file, andn then submit the job.
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> Albert
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> > From: "Alan Shore" <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx>
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> > Subject: Work with Job Schedule Entries
> > Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 09:42:45 -0500
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> > Morning all
> > I know that there is a way to programmatically hold a job schedule entry
> > HLDJOBSCDE JOB(JOBNAME)
> > and there is a way to programmatically release a job schedule entry
> > RLSJOBSCDE JOB(JOBNAME)
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> > My question is:-
> > is there a way to submit the Job schedule entry.
> > I know I could code the same SBMJOB parameters, but if the JOBQ or the
> JOBD
> > changes on the WRKJOBSCDE for whatever reason, this program would also
> > require to be changed for the same parameters
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> > Hopefully the question I am asking makes sense
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> > Alan Shore
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