JPH036627A - Job starting system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To start a job requiring the information that could not be used as a fixed value and also to start the jobs corresponding to various messages based on a basic pattern of the same job control language by starting the job in using a designated job control language. CONSTITUTION:A job information editing part 123 edits a basic pattern of a job control language and completes the job control language to sent it to a job starting part 12 based on the message acquired via a message acquiring part 121 and the editing conditions of the job control language out of those control languages acquired via a job information acquiring part 122. The part 124 issues a request to a job starting device 32 of an operating system 3 based on the received job control language. Thus it is possible to start a job requiring the information that could not be used as a fixed value as well as the jobs corresponding to various messages based on the basic pattern of the same job control language.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a job starting method for starting a job in response to a message output from a message output device of an operating system.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, in this type of job starting method, the job control language was fixed, so a corresponding job control language was created for each of a plurality of messages that were desired to be used as an opportunity to start a job.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

The conventional job starting method described above has a job control language corresponding to each of a plurality of messages to be used as an opportunity to start a job, and the job control language is fixed. Therefore, if the job control language requires information such as time, media name, etc. that constantly changes and cannot be held as a fixed value, there is a drawback that the job cannot be started by outputting a message. .

Another drawback is that when adding a message that is desired to be used as an opportunity to start a job, a job control language corresponding to the message must be added.

[Means for Solving the Problems] The job method of the present invention is a method in which a job is started based on a message output from a message output device of an operating system, and an indicator of a message to be used as a trigger for starting a job, and a job Job information consisting of a name of a basic pattern of a control language and editing conditions for editing the basic pattern of the job control language is inputted by a job information input unit that is input in advance from an input device and by the job information input unit. a job information storage unit that stores job information that has been sent to a job information file in a job information file; a message acquisition unit that acquires a message output from a message output device of an operating system; and a message acquisition unit that acquires a message by the message acquisition unit. A job information acquisition unit that acquires job information containing the same message indicator as the message indicator that was sent from the job information file, and the name of the basic pattern of the job control language among the job information acquired by the job information acquisition unit. After reading the basic pattern from within the job control language storage file using as a key, the basic pattern is edited using the message acquired by the message acquisition section and the editing conditions of the basic pattern among the job information. A job starting unit includes a job information editing unit that completes a job control language, and a job starting unit that uses the job control language created by the job information editing unit to request an operating system to start a job. are doing.

〔Example〕

Next, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. 1st
The figure is a block diagram of an embodiment of the automatic job starting method of the present invention.

In the automatic job starting method l of this embodiment, job information inputted from the input device 2 is sent to the job information file 5 in advance.
Messages are acquired from the job startup information storage means 11 stored in the computer and the message output device 31 of the operating system 3, and a job control language prepared in advance is generated from the acquired messages and the job information in the job information file 5. The job starting means 12 edits the basic pattern of the job control language in the storage file 6, completes the job control language, and requests the job starting device 32 of the operating system 3 to start the job 4. .

Of these, the job activation information storage unit 11 is activated by a command from the input device 2, and first, the job information input unit 111 is activated.
The indicator of the message that the user wants to use as an opportunity to start a job using an input device, the name of the basic pattern of the job control language, and the editing conditions for editing the basic pattern of the job control language using the parameters of the message. This information is stored in the job information storage unit 11.
Pass it to 2. Next, the job information storage unit 112 stores the job information passed from the job information input unit 111 into the job information file 5.

When the job starting unit 12 is started when a message is output from the message output device 31 of the operating system 3, the message acquisition unit 121 first outputs the message from the message output device 31 of the operating system 3.
After acquiring the message output from the job information storage section 122, control is passed to the job information storage section 122.

The job information acquisition unit 122 includes the message acquisition unit 12
The job information file 5 is searched for job information that includes the same message indicator as the message indicator obtained in step 1, and after obtaining the job information that matches the message indicator, the job information editing unit 123 performs control. give.

The job information editing section 123 includes the job information acquisition section 12
The basic pattern of the job control language in the job control language storage file 6 prepared in advance is read using the name of the basic pattern of the job control language among the job information obtained in Step 2 as a key.

Thereafter, the basic pattern of the job control language is edited using the message acquired by the message acquisition unit 121 and the editing conditions of the job control language among the job information acquired by the job information acquisition unit 122. After completing the process, it is passed to the job starting unit 124.

The job starting unit 124 requests the job starting device 32 of the operating system 3 to start the job 4 using the job control language.

Next, the operation of the job activation information storage means 11 will be explained with reference to FIG. The part indicated by Sll in FIG. 2 is the job information input section 111 of the job startup information storage means 11.
The part indicated by S12 represents the operation of the job information storage section 112.

First, the Sll part in Figure 2 contains the indicator of the message that you want to use as a trigger for starting a job, the name of the basic pattern of the job control language in the job control language storage file 6 prepared in advance, and the message. A part that uses the input device 2 to request and obtain job information from the user, which consists of editing conditions for editing the basic pattern of the job control language using parameters, and then stores this information in the storage area. It is. The Sll portion is repeated as many times as there are messages that trigger job activation.

The part 812 in FIG. 2 first includes the job information file 5.
This is the part where the job information acquisition section 111 opens the job information file 5, stores the job information temporarily stored in the storage area in the job information file 5 as one record for each message, and then closes the job information file 5.

Next, the operation of the job starting means 12 will be explained with reference to FIG. The part indicated by 821 in FIG. 3 represents the operation of the message acquisition section 121 of the job starting means 12,
The part indicated by 822 represents the operation of the job information acquisition unit 122, and the part indicated by S23 represents the operation of the job information editing unit 123.
The part indicated by S24 is the operation of the job starting unit 1.
24 operations.

First, a portion 821 in FIG. 3 is a portion that acquires a message output from the message output device 31 of the operating system 3 and temporarily stores it in a storage area.

The part 822 in FIG. 3 opens the job information file 5, inputs the job information code by code, and
This is the part in which job information containing the same message marker is acquired using the message marker once stored in the storage area in step 21, and after this is stored in the storage area, the job information file 5 is closed.

In the S23 part, the job control language storage file 6 is opened, and the job control language storage file 6 is searched using the name of the basic pattern of the job control language among the job information temporarily stored in the storage area in the S22 part as a key. This is the part that obtains the basic pattern of the corresponding job control language.

Furthermore, the basic patterns of the acquired job control language are
The message that was once stored in the storage area in part 21,
In step S22, editing is performed based on the editing conditions of the job control language of the job information once stored in the storage area, and the job control language is completed.

The part of S24 uses the completed job control language to execute the job startup device 3 of the operating system 3.
This is the part that requests job 2 to start job 4.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention does not have to prepare a job control language for each message that is to be used as an opportunity to start a job, but it is possible to prepare a job control language in advance using a part of the message that is to be used as an opportunity to start a job. After completing the job control language by editing the basic patterns of the job control language that you have set up, by starting a job using this job control language, you can keep values that always change, such as time and media name, as fixed values. It is possible to start jobs that require information that cannot be accessed, and it is also possible to start jobs corresponding to various messages using the same basic pattern of the job control language.

5 is a flowchart showing the operation of a job starting means in the automatic job starting method.

1...Job automatic startup method, 11...
Job startup information storage means, 111...Job information input section, 112...Job information storage section, 12
...Job starting means, 121...Menasage acquisition unit, 122...Job information acquisition unit, 1
23...Job Information Editorial Department, 124...
・Job starting unit, 2... Input device, 3...
...Operating system, 31...Message output device, 32...Job starting device, 4
...Job, 5...Job information file, 6...Job control language storage file.

Claims (1)

[Scope of Claims] A method for starting a job triggered by a message output from a message output device of an operating system, comprising: an indicator of a message desired to be triggered for starting a job; a name of a basic pattern of a job control language; A job information input section for inputting job information consisting of editing conditions for editing basic patterns of a job control language from an input device in advance; and storing job information input by the job information input section in a job information file. a job starting information storage unit including a job information storage unit for processing a message; a message acquisition unit for acquiring a message output from a message output device of an operating system; and a message indicator that is the same as the message indicator acquired by the message acquisition unit. a job information acquisition unit that acquires job information containing the job information from the job information file; and a job information acquisition unit that acquires job information containing the job information from the job control language storage file using the name of the basic pattern of the job control language as a key among the job information acquired by the job information acquisition unit. , a job information editing unit that reads the basic pattern and then edits the basic pattern using the message acquired by the message acquisition unit and the editing conditions of the basic pattern among the job information to complete the job control language; and a job starting unit that requests an operating system to start a job using the job control language created by the job information editing unit.