11 Job Report System (JRS)

The Job Report System (JRS) of CFS enables Enter jobs and DO procedures to be started and monitored.

In contrast to the /DO and /ENTER BS2000 commands, JRS offers the following additional facilities:

1) In addition to Enter files, DO procedures can also be started in batch mode. For DO procedures, JRS will create an Enter job which calls the DO procedure.

2) When running a DO procedure in Enter mode, the necessary parameters will first be analysed by JRS and can be supplied from a parameter mask.

3) JRS notifies the user following termination of the Enter job. The SYSOUT or SYSLST protocols, or any other specified file can be displayed, in addition to general status information concerning the job. If CFS is no longer loaded when the job terminates, the user will be notified the next time CFS is loaded from that same userid and account number. Notification of the termination of the job is performed regardless of whether the user is in the main CFS task or in a Connection.

4) CFS provides its own status command (STAJ) for displaying information about all Enter jobs and File Transfer requests being monitored by JRS.

5) If a /DO command is issued from within a Connection, JRS automatically performs the parameter analysis. A full screen parameter mask will be displayed if any parameters are missing. The user is thus presented with a formatted list of all parameters necessary for the procedure, and can provide the missing parameters before the job runs, although this is not obligatory. If the Connection is opened under another userid or on another system, this function is not available.

If the Connection was opened to a dialog task in another userid, JRS can be used to run DO procedures if they are shareable.

6) JRS can also be used to monitor Enter jobs that were not started under CFS. The user can be kept informed of any steps within the job. Any other events linked to a Job variable can also be monitored.

7) JRS can also monitor File Transfer requests started from CFS with a FT command.

The Job Report function is only available if the Job Variable software product is installed on the BS2000 system.