Is Job Active

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Nick,

Retrieve Job Status (QWCRJBST) should do what you want (and happens to
run faster then QUSRJOBI as the only thing it worries about is the
jobs status).  QWCRJBST is also found in the Work Management category
of System APIs.

Bruce

>
>We are writing a function for locking of functions that work on an object
>(Basically something like an order), To do this we are creating a record on
>a file for each user that access this object at each relevant lock state.
>Before doing this it checks to see if object is locked. If it is locked it
>needs to check that the job actually is active, and not just on OUTQ(It may
>of crashed?). Is there an api that can be used to check that a job is
>active. Or is there another way of doing this.
>
>I have looked at QUSRJOBI it would do the job but only allows access if user
>calling has JOBCTL.
>
>Nick R
>


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