Re: Monitor for existing job.

[Dr Syd Nicholson <sydnic@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Avoiding the duplication of a 10 digit job name is quite a common
situation and there are two ways I know of to deal with it.

1. Use an exclusive lock on some object. Any attempt to start the
program again will fail when can't get the lock. This method requires
that the use attempts to start the program to find out if it is already
running. Several other contributos have suggested this approach which is
simple, yet effective.

2. Use the system APIs QUSLJOB and QUSRJOBI. These APIs provide lists of
active jobs and detailed information about each job enquired upon. Using
these APIs, a program can determine if a specific job name is active,
and take appropriate action. More sophisticated than option 1, but also
more flexible.

Syd Nicholson



Leif Svalgaard wrote:

>From: Hall, Philip <phall@spss.com>
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>>>what am I missing? jobs are UNIQUE on the system. The 26 character
>>>
>>I think the poster was after a singleton job, i.e. there must be only one
>>
>of
>
>>these jobs running on the system at anytime, like inetd on Unix, because
>>it's function (or resources) can not be shared or would cause a conflict.
>>
>
>How would you specify such a job? And how would you prevent another
>one with the same simple name but using completely different resources
>to run or maybe it would be ok to run this as there is no conflict.
>I guess I may be taking too broad a view of what a job is. Maybe
>people running a production system manage things by naming
>convention: they would never dream about submitting jobs with
>the same name doing different things...
>
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