Jack, There is, unfortunately, no way to do that today. It is, however, something we are considering for the DRMAA v2 spec currently underway. For now, you have to get that information from qstat. qstat has a -xml option that should be easier to parse. At http://passau.dev.java.net/ you will find some JAXB bindings for the qstat -xml output, but they're probably out of date by now. Daniel Jie Zhang wrote:

Hi Dan, My name is Jack Zhang, a EE student in Johns Hopkins University. I'm currently working on implementing a grid engine and creating a DRMAA job manager using JAVA for the center of imaging science. your blog and your comments has helped me a lot in the past, and sorry for sending an email directly to you. but i want to ask you some questions that i couldn't find information on.

i want to get the status of a job with DRMAA, not only the what getJobPrgramStatus returns, but also more information such as the resources using, submission time and etc. but i have not find a method that could do that except creating a jobinfo object using wait(). which could only be done when the job is completed. if i want to get those information while the job is running, is there a way to do it?

thank you, and look foward to your replies -- Jie (Jack) Zhang

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