RFC 490 (rfc490) - Page 2 of 6
Surrogate RJS for UCLA-CCN
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RFC 490 SURROGATE RJS FOR UCLA-CCN March 1973 UCLA REMOTE JOB SUBMISSION FROM UCSB Introduction ------------ 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 --------- 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 -------------- 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. Pickens
