API/Condition handlers in ILE (was RE: Condition Handlers and CL)

["jt" <jt@xxxxxx>]

Tom/anyone

Is there an API that can monitor for a job getting held, or can the
condition handler API do this.

IOW, can I prevent a job from getting held?

jt

| -----Original Message-----
| [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of thomas@inorbit.com
| Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2001 7:04 PM
| Subject: Re: Condition Handlers and CL
|
|
| On Tue, 25 December 2001, "Carsten Flensburg" wrote:
|
| > You could use the QMHSNDSM (Send scope message) API - it'll let
| you register
| > a program to run at job end (or call stack entry end or TFRJOB).
|
| This is a cool API that gets little attention. Two uses I've seen
| for it are for cleanup, especially for a job that abends, and for
| restarts of jobs you always want running -- the scope program
| simply resubmits the job which then sends a new scope message.
| (Of course, that last bit takes some planning for when you really
| want it to end.)
|