RFC 490 (rfc490) - Page 2 of 6

Surrogate RJS for UCLA-CCN

RFC 490                SURROGATE RJS FOR UCLA-CCN             March 1973


                  UCLA REMOTE JOB SUBMISSION FROM UCSB


Introduction
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    Users of the IBM 360/75 at UCSB may now route jobs to and from
UCLA-CCN (IBM 360/91).  Only the reading, printing, and punching are
handled at UCSB while the scheduling, allocation of resources, and
execution are handled at UCLA. The program described below operates by
establishing operator and data connections with UCLA's Remote Job
Service through the ARPA Network and issuing operator commands to
control the submission and retrieval of jobs.  Thus it is possible for a
user to run jobs on UCLA's 360/91 almost as if he were at UCLA.

Procedure
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    Submission and retrieval are two separate phases which the user must
initiate for each of his UCLA destined jobs.  Usually, two UCSB jobs
will be required for the two phases of one UCLA job.  Exceptions do
occur using the BATCH options described below and jobs with a guaranteed
fast UCLA turnaround (e.g. QUICKRUN jobs.)

    Commands are issued through JCL to the local process and resultant
actions and messages are recorded in the RJS system log on the user's
listing.  The user must be aware of the timing of his commands, e.g. a
request to retrieve print output for a specific job will result in an
error condition if the job has not finished executing at UCLA.
Available commands are READ, PRINT, PUNCH, STATUS, and TERMID.

    Effort has been made to provide the user with fairly intelligible
error diagnostics although this is not always possible.  Error
conditions are described in the section "ERRORS".

Job Submission
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    The READ command is used to send jobs to UCLA.  It is the default
command if none other is specified.  UCLA jobs may be batched together
under a single read operation.  Great care should be taken to terminate
the batch with the correct delimiter (see DD Cards below) so that any
following non-UCLA jobs won't be sent to UCLA by mistake.  A suggested
procedure, if submitting jobs from the campus computer center, would be
to indicate on the job submission card the intended destination.  If the
job is accepted by UCLA a message from UCLA will be recorded indicating
the job name and number of cards received.




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