you mean by "user-specified" is when you write your job name via JobConf.setJobName("myTask") ? Then using the same object you can recall your name as follows:
JobConf conf ; conf.getJobName() ; ~Cheers Mark On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Mark Zand <mz...@basistech.com> wrote: > While I can get JobStatus with this: > > JobClient client = new JobClient(new JobConf(conf)); > JobStatus[] jobStatuses = client.getAllJobs(); > > > I don't see any way to get user-specified Job name. > > Please help. Thanks. >