job control
- noun
- Specialized
:
control de trabajos
- The job control program ensures that each batch job starts and finishes correctly.
Examples
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The job control system is crucial for managing batch processes.
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If there's an error in job control, scheduled tasks might not execute as expected.
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After the job control routine was updated, the system became more efficient.
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Can you explain how job control works?
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The job control program ensures that each batch job starts and finishes correctly.
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If there's an error in job control, scheduled tasks might not execute as expected.
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After the job control routine was updated, the system became more efficient.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a system/program that manages or controls jobs' is directly derivable from combining 'job' (a unit of work) with 'control' (the mechanism for managing), so a learner who knows both words can infer it as 'control of jobs'. Although it is a technical computing term, the noun+noun composition is transparent and follows a common cross-linguistic pattern, making the basic sense accessible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Job control comes from the image of a manager who sends each job to the right worker and uses control to start and check it. In computing the 'job' is a piece of work for the computer, so job control is the small program that gets tasks ready, starts them and makes sure they finish.
