hi anyone, does anyone have a script which is able to monitor a queue status and send out an email to the administrator? for example: q123 reached its full job limit (10), so i want an email sent out to me to inform; and reroute all new jobs to queue q890.

Instead of doing that, why don't you create a generic queue that points at both queues. When a job is submitted to the generic queue, VMS will send it to which ever queue can handle it. If both queues are full, then it will wait in a "Pending" state until a queue is able to process it. Example: $ init/queue/batch/start q123/job=10 $ init/queue/batch/start q890/job=10 $ init/queue/generic=(q123,q890)/start q123_q890 Now, submit all your jobs to the queue q123_q890. If you're still looking for a monitoring script, take a look a the lexical function f$getqui(). Ken

thanks ken, but email notifications are required.