The issue is that you need to define a place for a submitted job to look,
and it has to know where that place is, without being told. My suggestion
would be to submit the job on hold. You can do this with the SBMJOB
command, or by making sure it goes to a jobq that is always held or not
attached to a subsystem. Then you read your current job's message queue to
see what job you just submitted, and you create a keyed DTAQ entry based on
the qualified job name of the job that was just submitted. Release the
submitted job and it has the data in the place it expects to find it,
without being told where that place is.
Cleanup is the remaining issue in a system like this. What happens if the
batch job didn't run, or it failed. A secondary process can be called to
sweep through the DTAQ to eliminate any items deemed expired.
From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Rpg400 Rpg400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 07/29/2012 08:08 PM
Subject: Seeking inspiration ...
Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
I have a series of programs that need to be able to share some basic
information.
Solution must have similar characteristics to the LDA in as much as it must
be available to any batch job submitted from code running in interactive or
web mode,
BUT there are some limitations:
1) Adding additional parameter(s) is not an option
2) Using the LDA is not an option (other software thinks it "owns" it)
3) Does not involve the use of a file if at all possible.
Everything I have thought of so far falls apart somewhere along the path -
so I'm hoping someone else here has dealt with a similar issue and can stop
me from going round in circles with this one.
Jon Paris
www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com
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