Rtvjoba

[mlcoolj]

Hi all,

Which attribute should I use to get the status of a job that was submitted with the command RTVJOBA? I just want to know if a job is active before I resubmit it again!

Marvin.

[jamief]

Re: Rtvjoba

marvin not sure that its gonna be that easy.......

Im working on something like that right now...it lists *ALL jobs on system
if running , in jobq , or if completed and in outq.....

its using a couple of API's and I think that you could read thru the userspace
created by the program and look for that job...

let me know
jamie

[mlcoolj]

Re: Rtvjoba

that's too bad, is there any other way to check if a job is active in CLLE?

[jamief]

Re: Rtvjoba

you could do this

WRKACTJOB OUTPUT(*PRINT) 

copy that spooled file to a physical file
then use rcvf to loop thru the mess lookin
for the job.. now you wouldnt see it if
it was in a jobq...only if it were running.

I would let some "guy" finish his code and
ask if I could borrow it

[Mercury]

Re: Rtvjoba

Well there is an ingeniousness thing that consists in the CL to lock *exclusive an object (e.g. a data area specially created for that purpose) and unlock *exclusive this same object when the batch job is ending. From a command line you may then do wrkobjlck to check whether the dtaara is locked or not. If it's locked, the batch job is running (active).
The downside of this method is when the batch job falls over, the dtaara remains locked.

[jamief]

Re: Rtvjoba

this is RPG ..... but it will work for you with some mild tweaks

http://www.code400.com/forum/showthread.php?p=22714#post22714

jamie

[mlcoolj]

Re: Rtvjoba

Thanks Jamie, I solved the program by creating a data area and in there when I submit the job I change what's inside from '0' to '1' and when I'm done with the job I change it back to '0'. So only when it's '0' the job can resubmit itself.

[CessnaDriver]

Re: Rtvjoba

Thanks Jamie, I solved the program by creating a data area and in there when I submit the job I change what's inside from '0' to '1' and when I'm done with the job I change it back to '0'. So only when it's '0' the job can resubmit itself.

That will work, but if the job fails for some reason, the data area will be stuck with a value of '1'

[mlcoolj]

Re: Rtvjoba

Took care of that too, I just 'reset' the data area if the job fails...