RE: How do you determine when numerous SBMJOBs have ALL finished

[Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You will also get zero if none of the jobs are running for some other reason(s).  Like, held job queue, inactive subsystem, . . .
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Dennis
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Sent from my Galaxy tablet phone.  Please excuse my brevity.
For any grammatic/spelling errors, there is no excuse.
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"John Brandt" <pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Use the QUSLJOB API to retrieve a list of those jobs in an "ACTIVE"
> status
> for the job name. If the return is 0, then all jobs with that name have
> completed. There are a few examples you can find through a Google
> search of
> this API and its use.
>
> John Brandt
>
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> finished
>
> Question! what happens if every single sbmjob job is held up in a job
> queue
> (or even just one when all others have finished)? And when the last
> program
> runs, it'll see zero in the data area. Thus executing.  If you do this
> method, I would make sure that you add to the data area before the
> submit
> occurs.  However let the submitted job handle the subtraction.
>
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