Re: Seeking inspiration ...

Of course if there is any possibility at all of an NNTP client making
small time adjustments, you'll need a delay after the getting of the
current timestamp and before the SBMJOB to ensure that the job
submission timestamp is not earlier than the record's timestamp.
Personally I would put in a delay even if there isn't an NNTP client
running.

With this timing sensitivity, this is not a robust solution, and
certainly not one to be used if there is any other reasonable choice.
However in your situation this may be the least invasive solution.

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:10:49 -0700, Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hi Jon -

On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 18:03:51 -0400, Jon Paris
<jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Thanks to everybody for the various suggestions - it has been an interesting (if frustrating) experience.

Here's another suggestion ...

A permanent file with two key fields and one or more non-key fields.
Key field 1 is the job identification of the submitting job (i.e. job
name plus user plus job number). Key field 2 is a timestamp keyed
descending. The non-key field(s) are whatever you need to store the
data you want to pass.

Before the SBMJOB takes place, the submitting job runs a program to
write a record to the file with the submitting job's identification,
the current timestamp, and the data to be passed.

The submitted job runs a program which gets the submitting job's
identification and the timestamp of when the submitted job was
submitted. It does a setll to the file with those two pieces of
information followed by a reade with just the job identification.
Unless someone changes the system date or time while the submitting
job is doing its thing, this should retrieve the record which contains
the data that this submitted job needs.

Ken
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of my employer or anyone in their right mind.

Ken
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of my employer or anyone in their right mind.