BATCH - status messages from JSTS, JMON and JRUN.
Any message in the following list may be returned in response
to a query about a batch job by the JRN, JSTS or JMON commands.
- STATUS CHANGING
- system does not know exactly what the job is doing
- READING-RMT
- job is being read into system from a remote site (your
terminal)
- READING-CR
- job is being read in from a card-reader
- READING-MT
- job is being read in from a magnetic tape
- WAIT-ALOC
- job is waiting for the allocator to put it into
contention for resources
- WAIT-PERIP
- job is waiting for peripherals (files, etc.)
- WAIT-CORE
- job is waiting for core
- IN HOLD
- job is being held by the operator or by the system
because a tape or pack is not yet available
- IN LIMBO
- jobs is waiting for operator to complete special setup,
i.e. it is waiting for the operator to say he has found
the tapes and disks that will have to be mounted later
- EXECUTING
- the job is running
- SWAPPED
- your job has been temporarily removed from memory to
allow other jobs to run
- WAIT-MEDIA
- job is waiting for the completion of a tape or disk
mount request
- IN SIEVE
- job's resource requirements exceed those established at
the central site
- OVERDUE
- the system has been unable to run your job for quite a
while
- IN RESTART
- the system is restarting your job after a crash; it
usually will start in the activity it was in when the
system died
- TERMINATING
- your job is in the system termination procedure
- JOB NOT ACCESSIBLE
- job is either not in the system, or it is in SYSOUT but
SYSOUT is swapped right now
- NOT IN SYSTEM
- same as JOB NOT ACCESSIBLE
- IS IN <queue> CLASS <time>
- the job is in the queue <queue>; <time> is
the time when the job entered the system (see "expl batch queues")
- IS IN .HOLD CLASS [<time>]
- job is in the hold queue; if a time is shown, it is the
time the job is waiting for to start
- OUTPUT WAITING [ID=<id>]
- output is ready to be jouted (see "expl jout") or
printed/punched; the id field is present if the job was
submitted from a remote terminal; <id> is the two
character line id
- OUTPUT STARTED [ID=<id>]
- output has started to print/punch
- OUTPUT COMPLETE [ID=<id>]
- output has finished printing/punching
- OUTPUT RELEASED [ID=<id>]
- output has been released without printing/punching
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