How to fetch spool information using rexx

thilakvs · New User Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 30 Location: chennai

I want to take a particular information from the spool. how can i get it using REXX.

Any IDEA plz..

enrico-sorichetti

without You telling what info You want to retrieve the IDEA' s count will stay 0 for a while

thilakvs · New User Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 30 Location: chennai

information like CPU time.

superk

I don't know of any way to directly access the spool, using REXX or otherwise. There are two options that I'm aware of:

1. Most user's have the authority to use the TSO STATUS and OUTPUT commands to check the status of their job and to retrieve that job's JES output once it's in the OUTPUT spool.

2. Or, they use one of the spool management products that are usually available: IBM's SDSF, CA's SYSVIEW, or Triangle System's IOF. I believe all of these have a batch interface, and SDSF offers a REXX interface.

Aaru

Thilak,

I had worked on a similar requirement before.

- Used SDSF in batch to extract the contents of the DD where CPU time is present (This job was submitted using REXX)

- Then Using Rexx we need to find the exact line where CPU time occurs and then fetch the data. You can use POS, Substring etc to get the exact CPU time.

expat · Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

Personally I would use SMF data to get CPU timings, far more accurate.