Greg,

There is a command file called JOBSRCH (allows a job to search itself, written by James Wilkinson, published in the November 1991 edition of "Interact" Magazine) that would probably help you with this. Note that it requires MPEX to work.

It can be downloaded from http://www.fourdiamonds.net/hp3000/mpexxeqs.html

regards,

Robert W.Mills
Systems Development Manager
Windsong Services
(020) 8309 3604


HP-3000 Systems Discussion wrote:
> I am looking at a problem job. It runs a program, which can fail with
> a particular error message. This same program can also gracefully
> exit, giving a different message on normal exit. When this job ends
> prematurely due to the program failing, that's a bad thing, but as
> soon as someone is aware of it (usually because the affected users
> call us), we simply restream the job. 
> 
> Since fixing the problem with the program would require quite a bit
> more work, I am looking at trying to have the job read the line with
> the program's last message from its own stdlist. Presumably, the
> program's last message will be some small number of lines from the
> end of the stdlist, skewed by whatever code I add around the
> execution of the program. This program produces thousands of lines of
> messages, so redirecting the output into a temp file is not a favored
> solution. 
> 
> I think that what I need to do is use HPJOBNUM to determine the spool
> id, then capture the FINFO EOF of said stdlist, subtracting my
> offset, PRINT START=!MSGLINE END=!MSGLINE>TEMPFILE, INPUT MESSAGE <
> TEMPFILE, and appropriately handle the resulting value of MESSAGE.
> 
> Is that about right?
> 
> Greg Stigers
> 
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