Job Description (JOBD) for Job in AS400

Job Description for Job in AS400

Introduction to Job Description

A job description (JOBD) contains some specific information related with Job such as Job queue to be used by the Job, scheduling priority, routing data, message queue severity, library list information, and output information. These attributes determine how each job is run on the system.

We can specify the JOBD name for the Job to be run or we can specify *USRPRF so that JOBD associated with the user profile would be used.

A JOBD can be used by several Jobs in AS400 and CRTJOBD command creates the Job description.

Possible values of JOBD

1. QDFTJOBD: This is the system-supplied Job description found in library QGPL. You can run the DSPJOBD command from the Command line to see the attributes contained in this Job description

DSPJOBD QDFTJOBD

                           Display Job Description           
                                                            S
Job description:   QDFTJOBD       Library:   QGPL            
                                                             
User profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *RQD    
CL syntax check  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *NOCHK  
Hold on job queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *NO     
End severity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   30      
Job date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *SYSVAL 
Job switches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   00000000
Inquiry message reply  . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *RQD    
Job priority (on job queue)  . . . . . . . . . . :   5       
Job queue  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   QBATCH  
  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :     QGPL  
Output priority (on output queue)  . . . . . . . :   5       
Printer device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *USRPRF 
Output queue . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *USRPRF 
  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :           
Message logging:                                                
  Level  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   4          
  Severity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   0          
  Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *SECLVL    
Log CL program commands  . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *YES       
Job log output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *SYSVAL    
Accounting code  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *USRPRF    
Print text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *SYSVAL    
                                                                
Routing data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   QCMDI      
                                                                
Request data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *NONE      
DDM conversation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *KEEP                   
Device recovery action . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *SYSVAL                 
Time slice end pool  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *SYSVAL                 
Job message queue maximum size . . . . . . . . . :   *SYSVAL                 
Job message queue full action  . . . . . . . . . :   *SYSVAL                 
Allow multiple threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *NO                     
Initial ASP group  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *NONE                   
Spooled file action  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *SYSVAL                 
Workload group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   *SBSD                   
Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :   Default job description 

2. Job-Description-Name: Specify the name of user-created JOBD up to 10 characters.

Possible values of JOBD library

1. *LIBL: The library list is searched for the JOBD object.
2. *CURLIB: The current library of the Job is used to look for the JOBD object. If the current library is not set for the Job, default QGPL is used.
3. Library-Name: Specify the library name of the system where the JOBD object is present.

In AS400 Jobs, we can specify the JOBD value to control the access of library list by the Job.