Re: Monitoring program

> 
>                 We are trying to write a CL that would monitor a set of jobs
> running in a
>                 subsystem to see if they are all up, and if not to submit
> the appropriate
>                 missing job(s).
> 
>                 I'm sure there must be an API or something that we could use
> to test if a
>                 job of a given name is active - can someone give us some
> guidance?
> 
>                 Thanks!
> 

Have you considered using a tool such as Messenger Plus from Bytware.

This tool is used primarily to page in the event of a failure but it
could easily be used for this purpose.  The programing is already setup
to monitor active jobs for almost any criteria.

You could easily set it up to submit the missing jobs. 

We use the product and it has saved our butts any number of times.


John Hall
Home Sales Co.
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