Patent ID: 7472388

Claim:
A job status monitoring method of monitoring statuses of jobs executed on a computer, comprising the steps of: acquiring schedule information indicating a schedule of execution of a job and pre-setting an item of execution monitoring start date and time indicating a date and time to start monitoring the job and an item of execution monitoring end date and time indicating a date and time to finish monitoring the job; selecting, when a pre-set browsing time zone represented by an item of a pre-set browsing start date and time indicating a day and a point of time to start browsing a monitored status and an item of a pre-set browsing end date and time indicating a date and time to finish browsing a monitored status overlaps with a pre-set monitoring time zone represented by the execution monitoring start date and time and the execution monitoring end date and time, a job to which the execution monitoring start date and time and the execution monitoring end date and time are specified and setting the job as a monitoring item to be monitored; and creating monitor screen data to display a monitored status of the job selected as the browsing item.