On Fri, 12 Jan 1996 23:24:14 GMT Steve Cooper said: >In all of this great discussion on Multiple Job Queues, I have not >seen specific reference to one special type of job. It may be obvious >and it may not have any special requirements, but I thought I'd >mention it, just for the sake of completeness. >Every system seems to have some number of jobs that are supposed to be >running ALL of the time. These are equivalent to what UNIX might call >"daemons". I'm hoping my post on this was sent out OK; Gavin has replied to it so I presume it is, maybe Steve is just as backlogged on mail as I am :-) But I agree 100%, it was my #1 need. The other issue Gavin and I disagree on, in a nutshell, is how can you run a job RIGHT NOW. Gavin suggests moving an active job in the queue in question to another queue, I suggest a HOT queue with an implicit ;HIPRI that could be restricted to OP/SM users. I will address that further in a follow-up to his reply; meanwhile I'm reading ahead to make sure that I don't duplicate myself again :-) Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]> PS - The "daemon" queue idea is related to a similar enhancement request at the last IPROF for a "system-adopted process", same idea, but perhaps a more traditional implementation as a special job queue (IMHO).