Re: Monitoring a submitted job from RPG

You've received a good idea on this.  However, have you thought about 
having the submitted job update a data queue that the submitting job 
monitors?
- Less processing eaten up by checking to see if the job is still active.
- Instead of wasting time in a DLY loop the submitting job can process 
immediately when the submitting job updates the data queue.
- If the job abends, you do not ASSUME that it successfully ended and 
erroneously handle the process.

If the job did abend and the submitting job is waiting indefinitely on the 
data queue you could have a recovery process that posts an entry on the 
data queue that says 'ABEND' or some such thing.

Rob Berendt
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