9. Periodically click Job Status to view the job status as it transfers from one state to another. The job eventually reaches the ended state when it successfully completes. 10.Look at the database again to verify the updates. Issue the same SQL query entered in 5 on page 159 above. You should see results for all customer IDs from the trade records. The data for the customer IDs in trade records (1 through 4) up to the checkpoint remain unchanged. There are now entries for customer IDs from trade records 5 through 8 indicating the appropriate number of stocks. 7.5 Some observations and lessons learned The WebSphere Extended Deployment long-running environment is very new. Undoubtedly these services are going to mature and the programming model will evolve. As more long-running production applications are deployed, best practices emerge and are refined, and more product requirements are identified. It is also conceivable that best practices that emerge may differ between z/OS and distributed systems. Nevertheless, during the course of our developing, deploying, and executing applications in the long-running environment, we have made some interesting