Don't know about JOBSAVE but Vesoft's MPEX used to have feature to save/restore jobs... I'm quite sure it still does ! -- ================================================== Denis St-Amand (Remove "removeit." from email address) ================================================== "John Pollard" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:a21rmu01ijn@enews2.newsguy.com... > We use a program called "JOBSAVE", which I believe was contributed to > Interex by Boeing, to save scheduled jobs before bringing down the system. > It creates a batch job to restream those scheduled jobs after the system is > back up. > > When we try to stream the created batch job, the job is failing trying to > compare the creation date of a temporary file to an integer that is too > large for MPE/iX - as in the following: > > > JOB JOBSAVE,MANAGER.SYS;OUTCLASS=,1 > COMMENT This job will attempt to re-stream all of the > COMMENT jobs that were in WAIT or SCHEDULED when the > COMMENT JOBSAVE program was run. > COMMENT ************ #J9 ********** > PURGE X,TEMP > BUILD X;TEMP > SETVAR SCHEDULED,0 > IF FINFO('X',-6) < 20021677223753 > SETVAR SCHEDULED,1 > ENDIF > > > The number "20021677223753" looks like it wanted to be a date, but got > confused. > > Does anyone happen to know if JOBSAVE has a (latent?) Y2K problem? Any > other known problems? Any fix available? > > TIA > > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * > * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html * > * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *