Re: Qshell kill a job number

[Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

I replied to this yesterday when it was posted in the RPG400-L list. 
(Though, the reply should've been posted here -- sorry about that.)

You can read the reply in the archives at the following link:
http://archive.midrange.com/rpg400-l/201211/msg00083.html


On 11/5/2012 7:58 PM, Peter Connell wrote:
> Has anyone ever got the QShell command kill to work with anything other than a process ID
>
> The IBM doc appears to suggest that the following should kill a job who job number is 745839 but it just returns an error thinking that a job name has been entered
> That said, entering a job name instead of a job number does not work either.
> It's annoying having to determine the process id first which works when specifying that as a number without a leading %
>
> kill -s KILL  %745839
> kill: 001-0026 Job name %745839 is not valid.
>
> Peter