finding the submitter of a batch job

george botsios · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:00 pm

Hi!
i need to know the submitter of a batch job within a rexx script that runs under that batch job. (it's supposed that the submitter is different from the owner of the batch job).

expat · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:20 pm

george botsios · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 7:29 pm

hi again,

the submitter of the job is different from the owner of the job, but i need to know the submitter (the result of function 'sysvar(sysuid)' is the owner of the job). Any idea how to get the submitter of the job?

expat thanks for your reply

best regards

george

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:41 pm

Job submitter might be in one of the MVS data blocks although I wouldn't be surprised to find it's not there. The system doesn't really care who submitted the job, just who owns it (for security access) and what the job is doing (for resource management).

Pedro · Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:14 pm

If the submitter is important, perhaps you can enforce that a user can only submit jobs with themselves as owners.

Bill Dennis · Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 2:27 am

I have seen the TSO Submit exit IKJEFF10 used to grab the ID of the current TSO user and insert on a comment card into the submitted JCL.

George,
expat's example of the SYSUID value will be the person doing the submit under TSO. In most cases this is the RACF OWNER as well. Are your jobs being submitted via some non-TSO method?

george botsios · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 4:48 pm

the job submitted via SUB command.
the situation is the following

1. userid of edit session is 'botsios'
2. the job card of the submitted job is
//boo job (000),botsios,owner=tsinos,.........
3. after the submittion: although the submitter is 'botsios' the owner of the job is 'tsinos'. During the execution of the job i need to know the submitter (the value of sysuid function is 'tsinos' which is the owner).

thanks again

Robert Sample · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:26 pm

Unless an exit is coded as Bill suggested, I can't see you finding this information while the job is running. The system simply doesn't care who submitted the job, but rather who owns the job.