You might want to look into a product called "Job Rescue", if it is still
available, to do this.  If I understand your problem, at best you can insert
a "tell somebody what's up" message at the beginning and end of the job, but
the rest [may be] is programmatically created and therefore you cannot
modify it.  In this case, your only option is to watch for the job to start
and stop "from some external point", and that is what job rescue does.

An alternative, if you're up to coding it yourself, is to create a
"monitoring" job that periodically scans $STDLIST's and noting when they
complete.  I've done a passable job of this using MPEX, and it even e-mails
me any error messages and "tombstones" found should that be the case.  I
suspect that regular MPE command language features would be able to do this
as well if you don't have MPEX [just not as easily]

Tom Emerson
Sr. Systems Analyst
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Noam Koren [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 9:11 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Message from Job
>
>
> Hello all,
>
> I got a lot of ideas for knowing when job starts and ends.
> Thanks for time and effort.
> Unfortunately, not answering my specific need, which is very rigid -
> I can't get into job logic, neither change it.
> the idea of getting a message from the system came from other
> OS - IBM's
> AS400 where the Job Queue sends a message queue to whoever
> wants when job
> ends.
>
> I assume there isn't something a like in the HP3000.
>
> Noam.
>