RE: Terminating an idle batch job

[Jim Damato <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What do you mean by an idle batch job?  What are your batch jobs waiting on?
Are you talking about failed jobs with error messages on QSYSOPR?  I can't
imagine an idle job where the code has not been specifically written to wait
on some sort of logic (monitoring a message queue or data queue, or in a
wait or DLYJOB loop...)

-Jim

James P. Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>



-----Original Message-----
From: trevor perry [mailto:trevorp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 2:58 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Terminating an idle batch job


My batch jobs do not have a way to shut themselves down - and they mostly
sit and wait. How can I end the jobs if they have been waiting for a long
time?

Another way to explain this - I want an equivalent of QINACTITV for batch
jobs..

Has anyone built this? Or is there software?

Thanks in advance for your help,
Trevor