Yep. Should have used SHOWJOB in this example; that does the trick. Did
I mention that I probably made typos? ;-)

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>From:  Bob Mueller[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent:  Wednesday, December 10, 1997 11:21 AM
>To:    Stigers, Greg  ~ AND; [log in to unmask]
>Subject:       Re: Elements of style
>
>
>     Greg,
>
>     I like approach "Two" because it seems more direct to the task, BUT...
>     I received mixed results when playing around with it. It seems that if
>     there is another job running with the same user & account, even though
>     the job/session name is different, the SHOWPROC command shows the
>     processes and does not provide a CIERROR.
>
>     I'm running on a 957 w/ Rls C.50.03.
>
>
>     Bob Mueller                            [log in to unmask]
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>Subject: Elements of style
>Author:  "Stigers  Greg ~ AND" <[log in to unmask]>  at INTERNET
>Date:    12/8/97 5:16 PM
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>
>We want to detect whether or not a job is running, and if it is, run
>another job to gracefully shut down the first job. << Part of original
>message snipped >>
>
>Approach one:
>:JOB JOBSTOP,MANAGER.SYS,PUB.
>...
>:PURGE SJABC
>:SHOWJOB JOB=J0123456,BATCHJOB.ABC > SJABC
>:SETVAR NUMRECS FINFO('SJABC',19)
>:IF NUMRECS = 6 THEN
>:   STREAM J6543210.BATCHJOB.ABC
>:ENDIF
>:PURGE SJABC,TEMP
>
>Approach two:
>:JOB JOBSTOP,BATCHJOB.ABC
>...
>:SHOWPROC;JOB=J0123456,!HPUSER.!HPACCOUNT
>:IF CIERROR OK
>:   STREAM J6543210.BATCHJOB.ABC
>:ENDIF
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