HP-UX SNAplus2 RJE User's Guide

SNAplus2 RJE Components and Operation
Running the RJE Workstation
Chapter 364
Running the RJE Workstation
The RJE workstation is the program responsible for taking jobs from the
spool and sending them to the host for processing. It also receives output
returned by the host and routes it as required.
Depending on your SNAplus2 RJE configuration , you may have more
than one RJE workstation. You must configure each RJE workstation to
run on a particular SNAplus2 computer (which may be either a server or
a client). You can start a workstation only on its configured computer,
and you must issue any other RJE commands related to the workstation
(stopping the workstation, spool commands, or the console program) on
the same computer.
A group of users will be assigned to each workstation. Your system
administrator will tell you which workstation(s) you are to use.
The workstation does not have to be running when you use the spool
commands. You can use the spool commands at any time to add, list, or
delete jobs on the spool, and you can run the workstation at any time to
process any jobs that are waiting on the spool. The only restriction is
that you must start the SNAplus2 software in order for the workstation
to run.
While the workstation is running, it takes jobs from the spool in the
order in which you submit them, and sends them to the host. When the
workstation sends a job to the host, it deletes the job from the spool. If
the workstation encounters an error while sending the job (for example,
a session failure), it will retry up to 99 times to send the job, depending
on the -a option value specified with snaprjesend. The default is 10.
After the specified number of failed attempts to send the same job, the
workstation leaves the job on the spool and continues with the next job.
Workstation Directory Structure
SNAplus2 creates several files and directories for each RJE workstation.
It creates these on the computer for which the workstation is configured
as subdirectories of /var/opt/sna/rje/ WKST , where WKST (in
uppercase) is the name of the RJE workstation. See the HP-UX
SNAplus2 Installation Guide for more details if necessary .