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.


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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


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