Want to write a tool to check the JOB name

Joe_Song · New User Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 53 Location: china

Want to write a tool to check whether the Job member name in a PDS is same with the Job name in the Job card.
Because somtime i need to copy (just can use cut and paste ) a job content from one PDS to another and make sure the name is same with the job card. So i want to write a tool to check automatically. Anyone can provide some info ?

superk · Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 8:21 pm

You're not giving us much to go on. From your requirements, it seems to me that what you might want to do is to open a member of a PDS for edit, and then run an ISPF edit macro, which will perform the check and display some sort of error message if the member name and jobname don't match.

If that's not what you're thinking, then you need to provide more details.

ofer71 · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 2:22 pm

I would go for REXX:
- Read the members list (LMMLIST or LISTDS)
- For each member, use VIEW with MACRO.
- Create a macro to read the first line and parse the jobname.
- Return the jobname (QUEUE or VPUT) and compare to the member name.

O.

Joe_Song · New User Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 53 Location: china

Hi, upstair, could u give some code ? i am not familiar about this. Thanks a lot.

ofer71 · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 5:43 pm

No, I can't "give you some code", but there are many examples for each of the operations above.

O.

Bill O'Boyle · Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 8:47 pm

Check the Assembler "EXTRACT" Macro, which can return the job-name and other pieces of data.

Regards,

Bill

Joe_Song · New User Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 53 Location: china

so how to compare the job name use command?