For all these years I have sat and wondered......! :-)

Thanks Mark.


Rick Clark
Senior Analyst
WW&R
Cleveland, Ohio


Mark Bixby wrote:
>
> Eben Yong writes:
> >
> > Special utilities like GUI3000 have the ability to display the job stream
> > for jobs that are still waiting in the job queue.  How does one accomplish
> > this in MPE??  This is something which I have long wondered.  Thanks!
>
> You can do it without using any special utilities.
>
> Do a :LISTSPF to find out what the input spoolfile number is, and then do
> :XEQ PRINTSPF.PUB.SYS Innnn.IN.HPSPOOL.
>
> I tested this from MANAGER.SYS on 5.5.  I don't know what security rules that
> PRINTSPF uses to determine if you're worthy of displaying input spoolfiles.
>
> Also note that the !JOB card doesn't get written to input spoolfiles, and so
> this method is incapable of showing you the !JOB card.  Those other utilities
> reconstruct the !JOB card by examining the internal JMAT table (and maybe
> others) that the original !JOB card is parsed and stuffed into.
> --
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