Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!ukc!mupsy!liv-cs!sqkeith
From: sqkeith@csvax.liv.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Getting Information about Queues
Message-ID: <556@csvax.liv.ac.uk>
Date: 22 Mar 88 16:04:26 GMT
References: <633@tmpmbx.UUCP>
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Organisation: Computer Science CSVAX (VAX1), Liverpool University


In article <633@tmpmbx.UUCP>, pengo@tmpmbx.UUCP (Hans H. Huebner) writes:
> Hello,
> 
> I am currently writing a program which *shall* allow for screen oriented
> management of print- and batch-queues. The problem is, that i can't figure
> out how to get the actual information on what jobs are currently on the queue.
> It seems like there is no official way to do this, save capturing the
> output of a "SHOW QUEUE" command and reparsing it into machine-readable
> data.

The service you want is SYS$SNDJBC documented in the Orange Epic Volume
5A.

S'Keith Halewood