RE: Monitoring program

        I did this a few year back so I don't have the API name handy.  You
build a list of all jobs active on the system into a user space then
compare it to a file you put the job names to watch for.  Be sure to
include the subsystem name in your file.  You might also need to have
some date and time values to test on as well.  When we shut down some of
our applications for nightly backups we didn't want to be bugged by
messages that a watched job was inactive.  Special consideration are
also needed if your watching multiple jobs with the same name in the
same subsystem.  Then launch this watcher job to stay active in batch
somewhere (I suggest you use JOBQ QSYSNOMAX) and have it wait on a dataQ
on 15 minute cycles.  Now when a exception is found send a message.  If
sent to QSYSOPR be sure it stands out or it will get lost with all the
standard non important ones.  


        As you can see it is not as simple as it first looks.  

        Good luck.

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  Douglas Hart  
  Sr. Consulting Technical Analyst
  mailto:dah6696@goulds1.com 


From: John Cirocco [mailto:JCirocco@gw.ctg.com]
>>>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?

If you already have HelpSystems Robot Scheduler, you can have it launch
all the jobs and notify you of abnormal (or normal) job completions.

Just a thought,
John
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
  
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