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Re: Seeking inspiration ...

Hi John -

On Wed, 1 Aug 2012 11:50:46 -0400, "Voris, John"
<john.voris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This is exactly how Infinium from Infor passes parms to batch jobs.

The Master-Parm-File is defined with a key of 28 (10 for job, 10 for
user, and 6 for time and 6 for date).
The rest of the record is loaded with fields that some ancient
programmer guessed would be needed.
If the fields are not appropriate, then the maintenance pgmr steals and
remaps his values into the master-file fields to fit his needs.

It's been over a decade since I worked with this at a previous
employer, but doesn't the exact date and time get passed to the
submitted job?

In my suggestion that doesn't happen (if Jon could easily pass
parameters this whole thread would be irrelevant), which is why it has
sensitivity to any change to the system clock, even if the change is
only microseconds.

Ken
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