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Managing Jobs

The following information refers to managing Zend Job QueueA simple and manageable system for off-loading tasks from the synchronous user request, to an external, parallel PHP process., jobsJobs contain information about a specific Job (script to run) that you have set to run in your environment. from the Zend Server for IBMi Administration Interface.

There are three different ways to manage jobs:

Manage Job Rules
Manage Job History

Managing Job Rules

The following procedure describes how to manage recurring jobs. These jobs are created in Rule Management | Recurring Jobs or by using the Job Queue API.

Once a job is created it is added to the jobs table.

Job Management Actions

Action	Description	Instructions
Filter	Search for a specific job by name.	Enter at least 2 characters of the name of the job into the Filter field to start filtering the list of jobs by name.
New Recurring Job	Add a new job to the Recurring Jobs page. Each new job is applied after restarting PHP.	See Creating a new job
Suspend	Temporarily stop the job from running while still saving the job definitions. Settings are applied after restarting PHP.	Select one or more jobs from the list by clicking the check-box next to the job and click .
Resume	Un-suspend a job. Settings are applied after restarting PHP.	Select one or more jobs from the list that were suspended and click . suspended jobs are grayed-out and have the word suspended in brackets next to the Job Name.
Delete	A multi-selection for deleting redundant or unused Rules.	Select one or more Jobs from the list and click .
Edit a Rule	Open the Rule for editing to modify settings. To Edit a job, click on the Job's ID in the Job table.	To edit a rule, click on the rule's ID number to view the rule in edit mode. Make sure to click "Update Rule" after making the changes.
History of a Rule	View the details of each time the job ran.	To view a Job's history click on the History link next to a job in the Job table's Actions column. The Jobs page (Monitor \| Jobs) will be displayed.

Managing Job History

The Jobs page is accessed from Monitor | Jobs.

the Jobs page displays information on all the jobs that have run, are running and are scheduled to run including jobs that were created with the Zend Job Queue API.

There are a few ways that Zend Server for IBMi allows you to manage the jobs listed in the jobs page:

Global Settings: In Server Setup | Job Queue you can use the option define when to clear completed and failed jobs.
Manually: Using the Delete option in Monitor | Jobs allows you to manually delete one or more jobs from the list. The deletion process removes the job and its history completely.
Filtering: The filter allows you to view a selection of jobs by category, this is especially useful when there are a lot of jobs in the system. There is a predefined filter that allows you to filter by failed jobs and you can add an unlimited number of filters.
Additional Information: View the job's details to view additional information such as extended status information; headers, output and if the job while running generated an error.


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