Thus it was written in the epistle of Penney, John,
> The challenge seems to be that I am only getting the first occurrence (i.e.
> first record) of the LISTF. So, not a help if I have say a half-dozen
> sessions I want to get off the system at a given time.
>
> Yes, there are better ways of doing this thing, so:
>
> 1) a better way to do this is welcome, and

That depends somewhat on what you are wanting to accomplish.  If it is
really :ABORTJOB you are doing, you may want to examine the help for
:ABORTJOB.  It's a lot more capable now than it used to be.  You can give it
a job or session name and it will find the number and do the abort.

> 2) why does this approach through the INPUT JOBNAM < INPFIL construct
> where INPFIL is the TEMP file from LISTF, not function?

The answer to that question (as well as a number of solutions to the problem)
is found in

  http://raven.utc.edu/cgi-bin/WA.EXE?A2=ind9912C&L=hp3000-l&P=R2554

and I quote,

> The basic problem is that the CI's IO redirection opens the file and causes
> the record pointer to be set to the beginning.  This is done each time the IO
> redirdction is encountered by the CI.  Thus, if you try to read from a file
> in a WHILE loop using the INPUT command, you will read only the first record
> each iteration.  Below are some ways to overcome this restriction. . . .

HTH,
Ted
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