New qualifier for SUBMIT

[Stephen Daddona]

Hi all,

Can any of you folks tell me where on HP's web site one can ask for a new VMS feature? I was talking to one of our programmers about the SYNCHRONIZE command when we realized that a /SYNCHRONIZE qualifier on the SUBMIT command might be handy.

Thanks!

[Uwe Zessin]

SUBMIT has been storing the job's entry number in the symbol "$ENTRY" for a long time. You can easily do a:

$ SYNCHRONIZE /ENTRY='$ENTRY

[Garry Fruth]

HP User Advocacy for OpenVMS: http://www.hpuseradvocacy.org/platform_openvms.cfm

Although as noted in the prior response, SYNCH/ENTRY='$entry' should be sufficient.

[Stephen Daddona]

Using the SYNCHRONIZE command would require modifying a command procedure. If you had a /SYNCHRONIZE qualifier you wouldn't need to do that.

[Uwe Zessin]

Wrong. You don't have that qualifier today, so you cannot make use of it now. If it became available, you had to change your procedures as well.

And for new procedures it's no big deal either if you use a qualifier or the SYNCHRONIZE command.

[Stephen Daddona]

Nobody could tell me where I could go to ask for a VMS feature.

[Jan van den Ende]

Craig,

Gary _GAVE_ you the URL where you can ask.
I know from experience that it works (but surely NOT overnight!)

hth

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Ian Miller.]

also email dcl at hp also known to work.