Figure 1-9. Session and Job Commands

Figure 1-10 sho ws a comparison of c haracteristics of a session and a job. Y ou may not yet be familiar with all of the terms used, but y ou can get a general idea of the similarities and di￿erences and refer to this ￿gure again when y ou are more familiar with the 900 Series HP 3000.

Figure 1-10. Session and Job Characteristics

You can identify sessions and jobs curren tly running on the system b y using the MPE/iX command :SHOWJOB . This lists all sessions and jobs, iden ti￿es them with a unique n umber (sessions start with #S, jobs start with #J), gives their state of execution, input priority , and other pertinent information.

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