We have dozens and dozens of step jobs. Most of them require modification, such as dates.. Currently we are having to go into each step in the job and manually modify the criteria. There has got to be a better way... per GSC there isn't... does anybody have any ideas?

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I haven't done it myself, but there have been users that have written scripts to dump the appropiate GEN tables for the jobs in question, change the date params or any other param, then loaded the jobs back into GEN. The scripts would determine what the date value should be, such as get the first/last of the month, quarter date, 7 days out, etc...and plug it in. There have been several threads on TOPICA that have covered this in the past.

So in short, it can be done, hopefully someone who is using this method will chime in. :D

You are correct. It can certainly by done using the GEN tables. I have supported installations where PR140 (update payment date) and PR160 (update next check/recieipt #)were handled this way.

You could also use the 4GL routines 900-CREATE-AND-SUBMIT-JOBS to do the same.

Ragu

We use 900-Create and submit

Parameters on the screen are passed to the job then job is submitted