NetBatch Manual

Job Planning, Submission, and Management
NetBatch Manual—522460-004
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Displaying Job Status
READY The job is available for execution.
RUNNEXT The job was the subject of a RUNNEXT JOB command and runs as
soon as an executor associated with its class is available.
RUNNOW The job was the subject of a RUNNOW JOB command or has the AT
attribute. It is in this state momentarily until execution begins.
SPECIAL-n The job is on hold for one of these reasons:
•
The job’s SUBMIT JOB command specified the HOLD ON attribute.
•
An ALTER JOB command altered the job’s HOLD attribute from
OFF to ON before the job ran.
•
The scheduler put the job on hold after it ran and stopped because
the job had the attribute HOLDAFTER ON.
•
The scheduler put the job on hold during execution because of a
problem requiring user intervention.
n indicates the reason the job is on hold and has one of these values:
1 1:Hold The job is on hold for one of the first three reasons listed in
the preceeding description of SPECIAL- n.
2 2:NB failed The job was running when an event other than
execution of an ABORT SCHEDULER or SHUTDOWN SCEDULER
command stopped its scheduler’s processes.
3 3:NEWP.err The scheduler tried to create a new process for the
job’s executor program but failed.
4 4:Start err The scheduler successfully created a new process for the
job’s executor program, but the program failed during startup.
5 5:Fail RsOn The job has the RESTART ON attribute and abended,
but did not restart because its attributes include IFFAILS OFF. This state
applies only to recurrent jobs.
6 6:Fail RsOff The job has the RESTART OFF attribute and abended,
but did not restart because its attributes include IFFAILS OFF. This state
appliesonly to recurrent jobs.
7 7:CAL error An error occurred when the scheduler tried to open the
job’s BATCHCAL calendar file.
8 8:CAL exprd The job’s BATCHCAL calendar has run out of dates.
9 9:STALL The job has the attribute STALL ON and failed while
running.
SUSPENDED The job was the subject of a SUSPEND JOB command.
TAPE The job has the TAPEDRIVES attribute and requires more drives than
are available.
TIME (hh:mm:ss) The job has one of these attributes delaying execution: AFTER, AT,
CALENDAR, EVERY, or WAIT.
Table 4-7. Job State (page 2 of 2)
State Description