RE: Check if a particular job is always active

One of my predecessors wrote a couple of modules that do just this. They
monitor several jobs we have which monitor dtaqs. There are a number of
APIs, use of User Spaces, porotype calls that seem to call other APIs, etc.
I think he may have found a model on the internet somewhere that he used
(there is documentation about items not relevant to what is being monitored
and other characteristics I find in the code.

This runs in subsystem QPGMR (along with the dtaq jobs). And is restarted
each morning. I was just looking at one. I believe that there is another
similar module that monitors other jobs and will actually (re)start the job
if it is not running.
Regards,

Jim Hawkins
Programmer Analyst
Interkal LLC
Kalamazoo, MI


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Subject: Check if a particular job is always active

I need to be sure that a particular batch job is always active; is there
any system service that can I use to check that ?

This is my scenario : at ipl start my job IMP_ORD (that import customer
orders) and another job that should check every five minutes if the
IMP_ORD is active. This morning for some Ipl problem (that I have to
understand) this jobs are not started and so I have had problem with
orders import. So I would find a system job (that I'm sure that run
always ) that I could you as monitor for my IMP_ORD job.. I hope I
shall be clear