Re: Monitoring to Make Sure a Job is Running

["Mark S. Waterbury" <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxx>]

Old IBM System/34 or System/36 terminology for "Never-Ending Program" (cute,
eh?)

Nowadays, what we would call a "server" program (or "listener" job)...

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> From: "Mike Wills" <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>
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> What is NEP?
>
>
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 14:01:56 -0500, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > You could use a NEP that utilizes the QUSLJOB api to list jobs (on an
> > interval) and see if the job in question is running.  Then again, if
this
> > NEP dies also, you're toast.
> > Could schedule a lot of jobs on WRKJOBSCDE to check using QUSLJOB.  Or
> > maybe not so often.  And it could just be a backup to check that the NEP
> > is running.
> >
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> > Monitoring to Make Sure a Job is Running
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> > We would like to make sure that some jobs are always running on our
> > system. We had a problem on Moday with them not running and had some
> > downtime because of it. Is there a way to easily make sure these jobs
> > are running?
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