RE: Monitoring a submitted job from RPG

rpg400-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>   7. Monitoring a submitted job from RPG (Malchow, Grizzly)
>
>Is there a way to monitor a submitted job from an RPG program? I'd like
>to check the status of the job until it is finished running. 

Grizzly:

I suppose I'd do it the way IBM set it up to be done. Use RCVMSG (or 
appropriate API) to get the name of the submitted job from your program's 
message queue. Then, monitor the message queue from the SBMJOB MSGQ() parameter 
to get the job-ended message.

When the SBMJOB is done, make sure you specify a message queue that's available 
for monitoring. Perhaps create a dedicated one in QGPL or some application 
library just before you SBMJOB; and then name that queue for MSGQ(). When the 
monitor detects job-ended, it creates whatever kind of notification you want 
and ends.

Nearly all of this can be done in RPG via APIs. About the only thing that would 
be non-RPG would be the CHGMSGQ command that sets the monitor. Other things 
would be easier in CL, but RPG can use APIs for everything I can think of.

Tom Liotta

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