Re: How to programmatically submit a job and know its job number

[Alan Campin <alan0307d@xxxxxxxxx>]

Here is another one. Check the accounting code.

http://www.itjungle.com/fhg/fhg121411-story03.html


On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:10 PM, John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I am wondering how (if there is a way at all) to programmatically
> submit a job in such a way that the submitting program knows the
> submitted job number.  The purpose of knowing the job number would be
> to save it for later, in case the submitted job (scheduled to run
> potentially far in the future) needs to be ended/canceled, again
> programmatically.
>
> The reason I'm hoping to know the number is that it would be
> convenient to submit jobs with the same job name, but distinguish them
> by number.  If there isn't a (sufficiently convenient) way to do this,
> then I can come up with a scheme to submit jobs with unique job names.
> But before going that route, I thought I'd check with the experts.
> This sounds like something other folks would have had occasion to do.
>
> John Y.
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