Job number of the job submitted online

[sunbhu082]

Hi,
I would like to know if there is a simple way of
getting the JOBnumber of the job submitted online.
One of the methods is to write a Rexx routine ( as part of
batch job ) which gets and write the job id to a file.
This file can be accesed by cics to get Job Id.

Can anyone let me know if there are any other methods of
doing it.

Thanks in Advance,
- Sunder.

 

[gregsimpson]

Sunder,

I have spoken to my mate Mike who knows all about such things. He had the following to say

It will not get a number until it is released to the internal reader, by which time it would be too late for CICS to know about the number.

I think your idea of doing it as part of your application appears to be your best way forward.

Cheers
Greg

 

[razalas]

This would be crude, but you could include a step in the submitted job that executes a program whose sole function is to obtain the job # and post it to a VSAM file dedicated to the purpose of recording the job #'s. Then you could have your CICS application interrogate the file until it finds the job # for the job it is looking for. You would have to include some kind of unique identifier for/in the submitted job that would be used as the key for recording the job # on the aforementioned file. And you may run into issues with timing the sequence of things, but it should be doable.

But hopefully, someone else will enlighten us with a simpler way of doing this!

"Code what you mean,
and mean what you code!
But by all means post your code!"

Razalas

 

[sunbhu082]

Thanks a lot guys.
I guess i'll have to take the crude method itself

 

[MarcLodge]

Sunder,
Why do you need the job number from within the cics unit of work that submits the job?
Marc

 

[sunbhu082]

Hi Marc,
After i submit the job from online , i would like
to display the Job Id to the user.

- Sunder.