Environment

You can view and modify the environment on which OS/400 jobs run.

Parameter

Description

Accounting code

Defines the accounting code used by the submitted job when logging the system resources usage. 15-character string (use any characters) or one of the Special Values from the drop down list.

NOTE: If a value contains spaces or non-alphanumeric characters, enclose the value with single quotation marks (‘).

Routing data

Defines the routing data used to start the next routing step in the job. 80-character string (any characters) or one of the special values from the drop down list.

NOTE: If a value contains spaces or non-alphanumeric characters, enclose the value with single quotation marks (‘).

Request data

Defines the request data that is placed as the last entry in the job's message queue. 3000-character string (any characters) or one of the special values from the drop down list.

Submitted for

Defines the parent job name for the job.

A qualified job name in <number>/<user>/<name> format, or the special value from the drop down list.

Scheduling date

Defines the date when the job is submitted to the job queue and is eligible to run. Specify a date in the job's date format, with or without the date separator, or one of the special values from the drop down list.

Scheduling time

Defines the time on the scheduled date when the job becomes eligible to run. Time in hhmmss format, or special value from the drop down list.

Job date

Defines the date that is assigned to the job when it starts. (Job date format). Type the date or a special value from the drop down list.

Job switches

Defines the first settings for a group of 8 job switches used with the job. Any combination of 0s and 1s to form an 8-digit string, or the special value from the drop down list.

Allow display by WRKSBMJOB

Specifies whether the job being submitted is allowed to be shown on the Work with Submitted Jobs panel.

Default: selected - Yes.

Allow multiple threads

Defines whether or not the job is allowed to run with multiple user threads. One of the special values from the drop down list:

  • System default
  • Job Description
  • Yes
  • No

Copy environment variables

Specifies whether the environment variables from the submitting job are copied to the new job.

NOTE: When this property is not set (unchecked or set to No), LDA is not set for the job and environment variables are not passed Default: selected = yes.

LDA

Defines the local data area. You can add, delete, modify, copy or move up or down by selecting the icon in the LDA field. The LDA field contains the following:

  • Start: Defines the starting location of the LDA (1 to 1024 inclusive with a default of 1).
  • Length: Defines the length of the string in the LDA (default = actual length).
  • [Decimal]: Defines the precision (number of digits after the decimal point).
  • Value: Defines the value of the LDA. When [Decimal] is specified, the value must be a numeric value with or without decimal point (examples: 167, 1997.15).

    NOTE: For all formats, <start> + <length> -1 must not exceed 1024.

Parent Topic

Advanced parameters for OS/400 Job