Hiho. SAGA Jobs have currently following states: - Unknown, - HoldSystem, - HoldUser, - Hold, - Queued, - Running, - SuspendSystem, - SuspendUser, - Suspend, - DoneOk, - DoneFail I got the comment from colleques that PreStaging and PostStaging are missing. Indeed these stages seem not to fir into any of the above ones. Running would be a candidate, but since the remote resource is not neccessarily used anymore, that might be confusing. Should these stages be added? However, they do also not appear in the DRMAA specification AFAIK. Any thoughts? Another question: Assume I check a job status and find it 'DoneFail' - how can I determine the reason of failure? It would be useful to know the status the job was in before it failed (e.g. if it was prestating, I know then that staging failed, and the job never really started). Also it would be nice to be able to query for any error message. I think that the error query is distinct from the exception mechanism we will have: a job entering DoneFail should NOT throw an exception in my opinion - but that leads to above question: how can I query the error leading ot the DoneFail state? BTW: We should also check/sync with the error reporting mechanism for Tasks. Cheers, Andre. -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | Andre Merzky | phon: +31 - 20 - 598 - 7759 | | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) | fax : +31 - 20 - 598 - 7653 | | Dept. of Computer Science | mail: merzky@cs.vu.nl | | De Boelelaan 1083a | www: http://www.merzky.net | | 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+