Getting job details that ran in a particular time frame.

Lingam D · New User Joined: 07 Sep 2011 Posts: 8 Location: india

I am developing a rexx program to access the job details which ran in a given time frame.

My input for the program is start-time and end-time. I need to get all the job details that ran within this time limit.

Can you please help me in doing this.

Thanks in advance.

Pandora-Box · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 7:00 pm

Hi,

Don't you have scheduler at your shop?

Lingam D · New User Joined: 07 Sep 2011 Posts: 8 Location: india

Hi,

We have Zeke scheduler.

My requirement is to have a tool, which emails the list of jobs ran in a given interval.

David Robinson · Active User Joined: 21 Dec 2011 Posts: 199 Location: UK

Where do you propose getting the list of jobs from? Your scheduler? SMF? Somewhere else?

Are you talking about just z/OS jobs, or any jobs that may run through your scheduler?

Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:11 pm

Further, what about jobs that start before your report time-frame but end within that time-frame and jobs that start within the time-frame but do not end until a time-frame in the future?

Pedro · Posted: Mon Jan 20, 2014 8:18 pm

Lingam D · New User Joined: 07 Sep 2011 Posts: 8 Location: india

I need to get the jobs that end within the given time-frame irrespective of their start time.

I need to access the job details(RC, start-time, End-time) from SDSF independent of the scheduler.

sureshpathi10 · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 1:39 pm

It might be crazy... but you have an option to do what do you want.

I suggest you to search for "Using SDSF with the REXX programming language".

David Robinson · Active User Joined: 21 Dec 2011 Posts: 199 Location: UK

The Rexx/SDSF approach would rely on the jobs still being in the spool which may not be the case.

I would suggest SMF type 30 records, sub-type 5 if I recall correctly.

vasanthz · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 5:27 pm

Hello,
As far as I know Scheduler would have information of all the jobs that are defined on the scheduler.
If your job is not defined on the scheduler then you would not get it from scheduler.

SDSF/REXX interface would miss out jobs if they are moved away from spool. No joy here.

I think the only fool proof & the correct method to do it is by accessing SMF 30, subtype 5 as mentioned by David.

The sad news is, you would need SAS or some other programming language to extract data from SMF Type 30.

Regards,

vcjadhav · New User Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 19 Location: India

I think the question would be more relevant on where your jobs are moved from spool to?

In SAVRS, I think, all the job information is been stored in VSAM files.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Jan 21, 2014 8:32 pm

Hello,

How did the person who assigned this expect you to do this?

Have you talked with your Scheduling people and ask if they already have something that gives the info you want?

Many places do . . .