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sakreg · Beginner Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 80 Topics: 26

I am trying to Submit a Job from a PC Client to a Mainframe Server using

Himesh · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:03 pm Post subject:

Hi Sakreg,

This is indeed possible. Plainly speaking, the output from the executed JCL is redirected elsewhere and is brought back to the client PC.

I am providing the reference to a good article explaining the concept. Click on the highlighted text below to access the details.

Submitting Jobs and Retrieving their Output using FTP

regards
himesh

sakreg · Beginner Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 80 Topics: 26

Thank You Himesh for your Note.

Only after Submitting a Job using 'PUT' we come to know the Job #. As per the manual, we have to issue 'GET' to retrieve the output. My application does this in the background and the user won't see what Job number is. That is the reason I am looking for a way to retrieve the Output Automatically.

semigeezer · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 10:13 am Post subject:

The only way I've automated this is to use some ported Unix commands on Windows.
Basically I redirected the output of the PUT session to a file, and used grep and sed or gawk to transform that file which contains the job number into a batch or cmd file that does the GET. Then I ran that 2nd batch file in a short loop containing sleep until the output was ready.
You might be able to do simething similar using the native Windows commands (FIND, etc) but if so, I have no idea how.
You could also do it quite easily using Object Rexx on the PC (available as a free download).

sakreg · Beginner Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Posts: 80 Topics: 26

Thanks for your thoughts semigeezer.

I would go by the approach to capture the JOB# from the logfile.