"Duane R. Larkin" wrote:
>
>   This whole streaming jobs thing is a new concept to me.  I still not sure
> I've got it all worked out.  However, I do have some Perl programs put
> together that I need to run at certain times of the day.  I understand I
> can set these up as scheduled jobs, but is there a special way I have to
> setup the job stream to actually execute a Perl program??
>   Actually, is there a way to run a Perl program from the CI prompt?  I
> know you can run CI commands from the Posix shell.

If you have a Perl script named test.pl, you could execute it directly from the
CI (job or session, doesn't matter!) like this:

:XEQ /PERL/PUB/perl test.pl

So in a job:

!JOB PERLTEST,user.account
!XEQ /PERL/PUB/perl test.pl
!EOJ

Executing POSIX shell scripts from a job is similar:

!JOB SHELL,user.account
!XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS test.sh
!EOJ

Executing a single shell command:

!JOB SHELLCMD,user.account
!XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS '-c "some shell command string"'
!EOJ

Executing a bunch of shell commands:

!JOB SHELL2,user.account
!XEQ SH.HPBIN.SYS
some command string
another command string
yet another command string
exit
!EOJ

You should be able to do the same single-command and multi-command examples
with Perl.  The Perl single-command parm is -e instead of -c.
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