I think it would be better if you could have a job queue "Hidden" and not a
job, so any jobs launched in that queue would not show up on a regular
showjob. Then if you wanted to see what was in the hidden queue you would do
a showjob with an extra parameter that would display only what was in that
queue.

John Krussel
Nordstrom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Vance [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, February 12, 1999 9:49 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Reduce the number of jobs
>
> Paul Ackley <[log in to unmask]> on 02/12/99 06:04:17 AM
> > We have several "listner" jobs running on our HP3000 MPE/iX 5.5 we would
> > like to get rid of them so they are not in the list of running jobs
> > (Showjob).  How can we do this?
>
> There have been discussions at SIGMPE in the past about defining a new
> property for jobs that makes them 'hidden', at least to SHOWJOB.
> There are pros and cons to this idea, and minimally there would need
> to be a way to see all 'hidden' jobs too.  'Hidden' jobs do not exist
> on MPE.  Having one or more processes running in a job is a common
> technique used and has the effect of only one job being reported by
> SHOWJOB.
>
> Regards,
> Jeff Vance, CSY
>
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