RE: How to tell if a program is active?

[Roger Boucher <RBoucher@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Age old problem, and I'm curious to see what the incredible resources on
this list have as an answer to that question these days.  I imagine the
answer will be some API, but if you don't want to mess with APIs for some
reason, here are two other ways:

Two ways I know of...
1) IF you want to know if a particular JOB is running (I know you said
program) then WRKACTJOB OUTPUT(*PRINT) and then, well, yuck.
2) Lock some kind of object like a data area or something from inside the
program and then each time the program runs it will check to see if there is
already a lock on the object.


Hope that helps...


-----Original Message-----
From: Reger, Bill [mailto:breger@levitz.com]
Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 8:34 AM
To: 'Midrange-L'
Subject: How to tell if a program is active?


I need to make sure that a particular program is running only once.  I do
not want multiple occurrences of this program to be running.  I'm sure my
mind is already on Thanksgiving time since I can't seem to figure out how I
can check whether a certain program is active or not.  Can anyone help me?

William K. Reger
Senior Project Manager
Levitz Furniture Corporation
Phone:  (561) 994-5114
E-mail:  breger@levitz.com <mailto:breger@levitz.com> 

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