Pedro Gonzalez wrote:

> Jay Willis wrote in message ...
> >TGIF to you all,
> >
> >I have a question concerning the various times associated with a job.
> >
> >Let's say I submit a job and it has to wait in line. If I do a showjob,
> >it shows the time that my job was introduced. When my job finally logs
> >on, that time (HPINTROTIME) changes to the time that it actually logs
> >on. What I need to capture is that first time, the time that it was
> >submitted, so that I can keep track of the time lag between
> >submit/log-on.
> >
> >We are running under version 5.5 on a 947, and have MPEX and Streamx.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Jay
> >
>
> Streamx writes comments to the stdlist that tell you who ran the job and
> when they ran it.  You will have to interogate the stdlist to get the info.


Thanks, Pedro. But thumbing through a stack of stdlists, looking for
who/what/when is just what I want to avoid. I have finalized the procedure for
each job to write who/what/when to a circular file that is much more readily
accessible. Thanks for the suggestion, though.

I also want to thank all the rest of you who have offered your ideas and
suggestions. And especially to Glenn, for help on the problem of when to
capture the time that the job was submitted.