Hi all,

I was looking into enhancing SHOWVAR to accept a JOB= parameter that
would show variables for another job or session if you had SM capability.

I discovered that it is pretty easy to get the user-defined variables for
another job/session.  It is also pretty easy to get the predefined
variables whose values reside in the variable table for another job/session.
These include HPPROMPT, HPPATH, CIERROR, JCW, etc.  These are predefined vars
that you can modify.

It is difficult to get predefined variables of another job/session that
are implemented as active functions.  These are vars that you cannot modify,
like: HPACCOUNT, HPUSER, HPJOBNUM, HPUSERCAPF, HPYYYY, HPSTREAMEDBY,
HPPIN, etc.

It is also difficult to get predefined variables of another job/session that
are local to the CI.  These vars can be modified but are not stored in the
job wide variable table. They include: HPCMDTRACE, HPREDOSIZE, HPMSGFENCE and
a few more.


Any thoughts??

regards,
Jeff Vance, CSY

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