jobs File

The jobs file contains data for each phantom job submitted for execution.

Synonym(s)

jb

Description

The item-IDs is a date-time stamp. If more than one item is filed at the same time, an alphabetical character beginning with the letter a is appended to the item-ID.

The attributes in the jobs file are:

Attribute

Name

Description

0

id

Item-ID of the jobs file.

1

Status of phantom job.

c

Done

e

Error

l

Logoff

q

Queue

r

Running

s

Abort

p

Sched-ID

2

user

User who submitted the job.

3

md

Execution MD of the job.

4

command

TCL command for job execution.

5

out

Output status of the job:

n

Spooler hold file number.

m

Message back enabled.

s

All output suppressed.

6

who

Port number that initiated the job.

7

start

Date the job was actually started.

8

start

Time the job was actually started.

9

tcl-command

TCL command for job execution.

11

pcb-fid

Process control block (PCB) frame-ID of the job.

12

pib

Process identification block (PIB) or port number where the job is running.

15

stopd

Date the job terminated.

16

stop

Time the job finished.

The phantom scheduler keeps two queues in the dictionary of the jobs file:

%Q

Contains all jobs waiting to run.

%R

Contains all finished jobs not yet released back to overflow.

The dictionary of the jobs file also contains an item called %P that consists of a list of phantom PIB status bytes.

See Also

clear-jobs Command, job-status Command, list-jobs Macro, Overview, Port Number, startsched Command, z Command