Submiting a batch job to run automatically twice a year

[Walter Miller_1]

If you do not have a

SET NOON or
ON condition THEN ...

in your command procedure then see HELP ON and look at the examples to see how best to implement error processing.

[Steve ward_3]

I have attached the com file and here is what I get when running it


@WARD.COM
DAY = "Thursday"
MONTH = "04"
%SUBMIT-F-OPENIN, error opening $1$DUA1:[WARD]TREK_SNAPSHOT.COM; as input
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found

[Walter Miller_1]

HELP LEXCICAL F$SEARCH is your friend. If the funtion does not find the file it returns "". Your logic says if the file is not there then submit. You can change ".eqs." to ".nes." and it should work.

[Walter Miller_1]

Fumble finger...LEXICAL

[Jan van den Ende]

Steve,

>>>
if (f$search("$1$DUA1:[WARD]:''node'_snapshot.com") .eqs. "")
<<<

The colon (":") between [ward] and ''node'
is incorrect.
And, the search will NEVER find a file with a syntax error.

AND, you should check your logic:
IF the file lookup is empty (CANNOT find the file
THEN submit the file
ELSE (we have found SOMETHING)
THEN report we did not find it

Are you REALLY sure that this is the EXACT procedure? I would have expected an error on the SUBMIT statement...

Proost.

Have one on me.

jpe

[Steve ward_3]

Yes here it is when the file is in the firectory

TREK >>@ward.com
DAY = "Thursday"
MONTH = "04"
Job TREK_SNAPSHOT (queue DBA$BATCH, entry 187) pending
pending status caused by queue stopped state

[Steve ward_3]

SO YOU SEE IT DOES DO THE SUBMIT WHEN THE FILE IS THERE! BUT WHEN IT CAN'T FIND IT I GET THAT ERROR?


%SUBMIT-F-OPENIN, error opening $1$DUA1:[WARD]TREK_SNAPSHOT.COM; as input
-RMS-E-FNF, file not found

[Walter Miller_1]

Of course...as Jan said even if the file is there the extra ":" between ] and ''ward will cause the f$search to return "" and run the job. So remove that ":" and change .eqs. to .nes. and it should work as expected.

[Steve ward_3]

Great it did thanks for all your help

[Steve ward_3]

Thanks again