RE: Monitor for existing job.

["Wills, Mike N. (TC)" <MNWills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

How do you monitor for that? How does that work? I am doing this in RPG not
CL.

-----Original Message-----
From: Fisher, Don [mailto:Dfisher@roomstoreeast.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 12:04 PM
To: 'midrange-l@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Monitor for existing job.


I personally don't like using a value in a data area to determine whether a
job is running.  The reason being that jobs can sometimes end without
updating the data area with the "not running" value.

When I have this requirement I have the job allocate the data area with an
exclusive lock.  If it fails, then another copy must be running.

Hope that helps.

Donald R. Fisher, III
Project Manager
The Roomstore Furniture Company
(804) 784-7600 extension 2124
DFisher@roomstoreeast.com

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If there is a '1' in the data area, it is running, if there is a '0', it
isn't running.
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