What do these mean when starting Batch Reports?

[ngoht20]

Whenever I start to so a batch report jobs, I get these logs. Its not from a command shell or anything like that. What I do first after I logon, is I go to a menu and select what reports I need to run on a daily basis from a selection menu on a screen. Ok, heres what it giving me below:

Job VTOVERDRPC01 (queue TODV02$SYSBATCH, entry 1366) completed

Job VTOVERDRPC01 (queue TODV02$SYSBATCH, entry 1366) completed

Job VTOVERDRPC01 (queue TODV02$SYSBATCH, entry 1366) completed

Job VTOVERDRPC01 (queue TODV02$SYSBATCH, entry 1366) completed

and so on....

[Hoff]

This is likely not an OpenVMS issue.

I am here inferring -- quite possibly incorrectly -- that you are relatively unfamiliar with DCL and DCL programming.

It's likely something odd within the environment or within the menu system and its related processing.

You will want to look at or get somebody in to look at the menu system you are using, as it's apparently encountered a (probably minor) processing problem of some sort.

One potential trigger: should you see a whole barrage of these as a result of submitting a single batch job with SUBMIT (which is probably what your menu tool is doing), this behaviour could also be because the user has used SET HOST multiple times, and has SET HOST from a SET HOST session some number of times.

SUBMIT can return a completion batch job message to the user, and if you're logged into a session which is logged into a session which is logged into a session, each of the sessions will show the batch completion message.

Other triggers could be logic glitches within the menus, depending on exactly what is generating these Job messages, and how.

If you wish to learn DCL, there first stop is usually the OpenVMS User's Guide in the manual set, available tutorial web sites referenced in the OpenVMS FAQ, and there are various books around. (I wrote the second edition of Writing Real Programs in DCL book.) Or you can get somebody in to look at this processing and this DCL menu.

Stephen Hoffman
HoffmanLabs

[Terry Yeomans]

Whatever com file submits the jobs needs a /NONOTIFY on each job. This should stop the messages.
Regards Terry.