my $jobid = hex $ARGV[6];
% perl -le 'print hex 0x3d2'2424
The jobid and taskid values are hex-encoded when received as arguments by iwat - if you're using Perl - just convert them with the built-in hex function. - e.g.:my $jobid = hex $ARGV[6]; In your case: % perl -le 'print hex 0x3d2'2424