Ought to  be possible to use jobcnt to find the job or jobs, then loop thru
the joblist_var and call jinfo to see which ones are EXEC and which are WAIT.

(If I knew more about your specific situation, I might have a completely
different approach.  For example, to block all the jobs in a separate jobq
during our backups, our backup streams a placeholder job with a higher inpri
than the real jobs, then waits for it to log on.  The placeholder does nothing
except pause until the backup job logs off).

Dave Powell,  MMfab

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stigers" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 23:11
Subject: [HP3000-L] pausing for a job


> Our daily processing shuts down various jobs before the backup, and then
> aborts those that do not shut down. I had noticed that some jobs took longer
> to shut down than this process allowed, so I added times pauses for these
> jobs to shutdown. Later, I noticed that one pause always gave an error that
> the time for pause had been exceeded. Then I noticed that this job was being
> rescheduled to start before the backup. So of course, it existed, and pause
> waited on it. Is there a simple way around this, to pause for the executing
> job while it is shut down, but not for the scheduled job?
>
> Greg Stigers
>
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