C-LANG Statements › AGENT Statement—Specify the Agent Where the Job Runs

AGENT Statement—Specify the Agent Where the Job Runs

The AGENT statement identifies the distributed platform where the job runs under the control of the agent.

Supported Job Types

This statement is required for all agent job types.

Syntax

This statement has the following format:

AGENT agent_name

agent_name

Specifies a valid agent name as defined in the agent definition.

Limits: Up to 16 characters; the first character must be a letter. The remaining characters can be any combination of alphanumeric characters, including the underscore character. The name cannot contain spaces or special characters.

Example: Define Agent Workload

This example runs the i5/OS job under the AS401 agent:

AGENT AS401
CLPNAME MFGPROG