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Change a nightly backup CL program

OK it has been years since I've touched our AS400 (it is now decommissioned), but after the holidays I thought I'd try to finally change the nightly backup job. It currently kicks out the tape at the end, and if I forget to put a new one in it fails the next night. So here was my steps taken.

First do a WRKJOBSCDE to find the job. Got it.

The job executes this CALL PGM(QGPL/NIGHTLY)

Fired up STRPDM. And looked at the object QGPL/NIGHTLY. Found it used QCLSRC\ARISRC as the source file, NIGHTLY as the member.

Looked at the member object and found the issue on line 21. ENDOPT was set to *UNMOUNT. So I changed it to *REWIND ENDOPT(*REWIND)

Put the tape back in and I'll be darned if the next day it was out again. I realized I forgot to compile it. So i went back to the member took option 14 to compile. Got a successful message. Then I came in this morning and it was out again.

Since this is all more than a little rusty, what could I be missing? The only lines after the rewind are some strsbs commands. and there are no other calls in the program. What is really weird is even after a compile and change when I look at the program again in QGPL\NIGHTLY it shows a source file last changed date in 2004.

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bhieb

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Ok so it looks like it is putting it in the correct spot, but there is an option on F4 to replace program. I'm assuming that is what I missed. Is it safe to do that, logic says yes, but my green screen fear says ask first :)

bhieb

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Wait maybe I'm missing something here. This is the compile screen.

Program  . . . . . . . . . . . . > NIGHTLY       
  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . >   ARISRC      
Source file  . . . . . . . . . . > QCLSRC        
  Library  . . . . . . . . . . . >   ARISRC      
Source member  . . . . . . . . . > NIGHTLY       
Text 'description' . . . . . . .   *SRCMBRTXT    
                                                 
                                                 
                           Additional Parameters 
                                                 
Replace program  . . . . . . . . > *NO

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Should the Program library actually be QGPL since that is what it being called?

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> option on F4 to replace program

That might be it. Specify *YES

> Should the Program library actually be QGPL since that is what it being called?

Yes

HTH,
DaveSlash

bhieb

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Yep that was it, now the called object has the correct changed date. Thanks for being the sounding board, been too long since I've done this stuff.