Transferring Save Files

March 30, 2005 Bruce Guetzkow

The code for this article is available for download.

In addition to transferring physical file data to and from the Integrated File System (IFS), which I covered a year ago in this newsletter (see “Better Data Transfers”), it is sometimes desirable to transfer data that has been placed into a save file. Copying a save file to the IFS makes it possible to attach data to an email. You can then easily share objects with a colleague or with IBM for aid in problem resolution. I have developed two commands that simplify this task: SAVSAVFIFS (Save Save

Is My Job Finished?

March 30, 2005 Hey, Ted

From things you have written, I know you understand my need to avoid modifying the packaged software we run. I would like to write a program, to run at night, that will run some in-house programs and then submit some programs from the packaged software to batch. At this point, I need to wait until all the submitted jobs have finished before continuing with some more homegrown programs. How can my overnight program know when the submitted jobs have finished?

–Tim

Isn’t it amazing the lengths we go to in order to avoid modifying packaged software? I’ve put something together