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Hi,
i got a little problem. I'm working on my bachelor thesis and I have to write a program which is called by an other programm (let's say "Controller" to this calling programm and "Router" to the called programm).

There are many different Controllers working on a z/OS system initialized by different jobs with differen jobnames. My Router need to know which Controller it was called from. My idea is to analyze the address space my Router is running in. Every Controller got its own address space. So if there are any information about the job creating the address space in the address space, I could solve the problem. I can't solve the problem by adding Parameters, because the interfaces are allready definded.

Do you think it is possible to get the information by analyzing the address space?
Do you know if there is a better solution?
Where can I get information about analyzing the address space? (there are millions of manuals! maybe you can give me a hint )

PS My mainframe knowledge is limited. I'm working on a z/OS system for 0,25year now.

thank you!

Hello and welcome to the forum,

I believe you have chosen to do something that is well beyond your experience level. If you were to learn to navigate the MVS data areas (system control blocks) you could fairly easily find the job and step name (no, i don't have a sample, but there are several available on the web). If i remember (and it has been a long time) determining calling module is much less needed and more work to determine. A basic rule is that called code does not care what calls it. . . Called code takes the "input", does whatever, and exits.

Suggest you do what we do in the real world when we discover that the original spec is insufficient and change the parm list to include caller-id.

There is much to see here:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ ... 0/CONTENTS?

thank you.

unfortunately, there is no way to change the parm list, because my solution will be embedded in to many environments.
I have a sample how to navigate to the system control blocks, I will give it a shot.

Good luck

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i found a solution: http://www.ibmmainframes.com/about38515.html

it is solved in rexx, but it should be no problem to do it in assembler

Hello,

That example does not do what your original post says you need. . .

well...
the example returns the name of the current job.
every controller has an own jobname. if my programm gets the current jobname, it would know, which controller has called it.
i think that could solve my problem?!

Hello,

i think that could solve my problem?!

If jobname is sufficient, that should work