In <[email protected]>, on
05/01/2013
at 12:40 AM, Anthony Rudd <[email protected]> said:
>I would have thought (hoped) that there is a short sequence of
>control blocks accessible from an unauthorised program that can be
>processed to determine whether a known job is running (is know to
>the system, if not - it has completed).
No; it might not yet have started. It's easy to tell whether there is
a jobstep in execution and just a little harder to tell whether there
is a job being processed by the initiator, but determining whether
there is a job awaiting execution requires going into the relevant
JES.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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