How to check for active job?

Brian B. Christensen

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Jun 19, 2002, 8:40:48 AM6/19/02

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Hi,

I need some help for a small program that will check if a job is
active.

I was trying the following:

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DSPJOB JOB(NUMBER/USER/JOB)
MONMSG(CPF1070) EXEC(not found).

job is found

not found: ENDPGM
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But if the job has old spooledfiles and the jobstatus is OUTQ, CPF1070
is not catching this. It will act like the job is active.

How do i do, if i want to check if the job is found and active or not?

Regards
Brian

Brian B. Christensen

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Jun 19, 2002, 8:50:23 AM6/19/02

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:40:48 +0200, Brian B. Christensen
<bb...@hotmailen.com> wrote:

>How do i do, if i want to check if the job is found and active or not?

I was finding out already. I will do a DSPLOGLOG. This is failing if
the job is not ACTIVE at all.

/Brian

Henk Rotman

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Jun 19, 2002, 9:01:31 AM6/19/02

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Why don't you use WRKUSRJOB? You can check all your (and others) jobs;
wether they are active, in jobq or outq.
The only thing you need is a command rule.

Henk

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Brian B. Christensen

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Jun 19, 2002, 9:07:10 AM6/19/02

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 15:01:31 +0200, "Henk Rotman" <kne...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>Why don't you use WRKUSRJOB? You can check all your (and others) jobs;
>wether they are active, in jobq or outq.
>The only thing you need is a command rule.

Because I'm reading the job number, job name and user from a file. And
i only want to check these jobs.

Regards
Brian

Henk Rotman

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Jun 19, 2002, 9:33:12 AM6/19/02

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I 've tried this on the command rule:
DSPJOB JOB(NUMBER/USER/JOB) OPTION(*STSA)

If the job is in OUTQ I get CPF1070, if active not, can't check what i see
when the job is in jobq.

Henk

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Rodney Johnson

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Jun 19, 2002, 9:28:21 AM6/19/02

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Brian, Use API QUSRJOBI to extract the job's status. If job is gone you
will get an error message you can check for. If not, you can check the
job status. API documentation is under programming in the InfoCenter.

URL for InfoCenter:
http://as400bks.rochester.ibm.com/pubs/html/as400/infocenter.htm

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Brian B. Christensen

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Jun 19, 2002, 9:51:53 AM6/19/02

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On Wed, 19 Jun 2002 08:28:21 -0500, Rodney Johnson
<rjoh...@rchland.ibm.com> wrote:

>Brian, Use API QUSRJOBI to extract the job's status. If job is gone you
>will get an error message you can check for. If not, you can check the
>job status. API documentation is under programming in the InfoCenter.

Thanks. This is exactly what i need.

Regards Brian