VMS Help SHOW, ENTRY, Examples  *Conan The Librarian (sorry for the slow response - running on an old VAX)

    1.$ SHOW ENTRY/BY_JOB_STATUS=RETAINED
      Entry    Jobname       Username    Blocks      Status
      -----    -------       --------    ------      ------
        422    FORECAST      JONES                   Retained on completion
               On stopped generic batch queue CLUSTER_BATCH
               Completed 21-DEC-2001 16:18 on queue NODE_BATCH

      In this example, the SHOW ENTRY command displays a job entry
      that was retained on completion.

    2.$ SHOW ENTRY/FULL S*
      Entry     Jobname      Username    Blocks     Status
      -----     -------      --------    ------     ------
        625     STAFF        ESTES          112     Pending (queue stopped)
                On stopped printer queue LN01$PRINT
                Submitted 19-DEC-2001 12:14 /FORM=LN01$PORTRAIT
                (stock=DEFAULT) /NOTIFY /PRIORITY=100
                File: _DKA1:[ESTES]STAFF.DIS;3

        629     SEARCH         ESTES          94      Printing
                On printer queue LINE$PRINT
                Submitted  19-DEC-2001 12:16 /FORM=DEFAULT /NOTIFY
                /PRIORITY=100 /COPIES=2 /NOFEED /PASSALL
                File: _DKA1:[ESTES.DAILY]SEARCH.TXT;2 (printing copy 2)

      In this example, the SHOW ENTRY command displays the current
      jobname entries beginning with the letter "S" owned by ESTES
      on all queues. The /FULL qualifier lists the submission
      information, the full file specification, and the current
      settings for the job.

      Note that entry 629 specified the /COPIES, /NOFEED, and
      /PASSALL qualifiers to the PRINT command. The /NOFEED qualifier
      suppresses automatic form feeds. The /PASSALL qualifier
      suppresses formatting (including form feeds and carriage return
      characters) performed by the print symbiont.

    3.$ SUBMIT ASSIGNMENTS.COM
      Job ASSIGNMENTS.COM (queue SYS$BATCH, entry 199) pending
         .
         .
         .
      $ SHOW ENTRY 199/FULL
      Entry    Jobname       Username     Status
      -----    -------       --------     ------
        199    ASSIGNMENTS   JONES        Executing
               Submitted 19-DEC-2001 08:36 /KEEP /NOLOG/ NOPRINT
               /PRIORITY=100
               File: DUA2:[JONES]ASSIGNMENTS.COM;34

      In this example, JONES submits ASSIGNMENTS.COM for batch
      processing. Because JONES does not specify a specific queue,
      the job is entered into the generic SYS$BATCH queue to await
      processing. After performing other tasks, JONES checks the job
      status and sees that the file is now executing. Note that the
      job entry migrated from a generic to an execution batch queue
      and that JONES was able to check the job status without knowing
      the specific batch queue name. If the user did not specify an
      entry number, all jobs would have been displayed.