Finding JOB Location in spool messages or history

Pravesh · New User Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 32 Location: Gurgaon

Is there any way to know the location of Job from where it is submitted thru job messages in spool or history? for example:-
I saw some job
ABCDEF in spool and want to know from which location that job submitted.

Regards,
Pravesh

expat · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 3:04 pm

Please explain exactly what it is that you want to find out.

Also, what has this topic got to do with Mainframe COBOL
Moved to Other topics forum.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:28 pm

I'm also not sure what are you asking, however are you looking for a message of kind

PeterHolland · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 6:41 pm

What is it with all those questions about owners, submitters etc.
The people who ask that kind of questions are auditors?
Or want to do illegal actions and want to know where there
actions are going to be registrated?

Terry Heinze · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:10 pm

Interesting questions you've posed, Peter! Seems like some of these types of questions are more interested in "finger-pointing" than anything else.

PeterHolland · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:38 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:51 pm

Hello,

PeterHolland · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:26 am

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 12:53 am

A difference between horizontal and vertical, perhaps . . .

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Terry Heinze · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:52 am

Yes, I use the vertical version on the freeways occasionally.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 3:54 am

And your bumper sticker is:

Horn broke - watch for finger.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:08 am

whereas it is only leathal in the US to 'flip the bird to another car',
here is germany it is illegal - yes there is a law against 'flipping the bird' to another driver.

Pravesh · New User Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 32 Location: Gurgaon

please have the example for details:-
in spool there is one job like "CRACIN" that already ran. I want to know from which location means PDS details that job submitted.

suppose I submit one jobs ABC from RACFID.JCL. If somebody who does not know RACFID.JCL but he can see ran job in spool/history/SAR, how can he trace that job submitted from RACFID.JCL.

If still not clear please let me know.

Regards,
Pravesh

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 4:17 pm

What would you with such an information? In which PDS job resides, knowing this, would serve you what?

Pravesh · New User Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 32 Location: Gurgaon

It hepls if the job in spool/history/SAR is the same which I want to test so I can save my time. I have to use new loads. In case I have to submit some 15-20 jobs than it saves a lot time ,if somebody already have test setup for those jobs.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:03 pm

Hello,

expat · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:12 pm

But if you are going to test something different from the previous tester, then there will be differences between the two submitted jobs.

Pravesh · New User Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 32 Location: Gurgaon

Thanks to all for your post and trying to answer my problem. If anybody know how can I trace from where the job submitted by seeing job messages in spool/SAR. If still not clear please let me know.

Robert Sample · Posted: Tue Dec 22, 2009 9:24 pm

As far as I am aware, what you are asking is not tracked nor recorded anywhere in the system. The system doesn't really care which PDS or sequential file was submitted; all that matters is that a job hit the queue and needs to be assigned priority, an initiator, resources, ...

If the job is running under scheduler control, the scheduler will know which PDS the job came out of, but if you're just submitting (via TSO SUBMIT commands, internal reader copy in batch jobs, CICS SPOOLWRITE commands, FTP to JES, or whatever) a job the system does not know the source of the JCL.

Pravesh · New User Joined: 30 Jul 2009 Posts: 32 Location: Gurgaon

Thanks a lot Robert
I agree with you.