Re: CL command to check whether an active job of a given name exists?

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It does at more recent levels as several examples have shown.
What level of OS are you working with?

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Jim Oberholtzer
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On Wed, May 15, 2024 at 12:07 PM James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <
midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A semaphore (I've used the concept a number of times, and I've seen it
> under that name in the Java documentation, but for some reason, I've
> never associated the name with the concept) is of course the simplest
> solution to the problem.
>
> What I was suggesting the OS could do would be to provide an easy way
> for a CL program to either know whether there was an active job under a
> given name, or (even better) know whether a given program was in use,
> thereby allowing the jobname or the program itself to function as a
> semaphore.
>
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