LSF - Get ID of submitted job

Question

Say I submit a job using something like bsub pwd. Now I would like to get the job ID of that job in order to build a dependency for the next job. Is there some

Answer 1

In case you are using C++, you can use the lsblib, LSF C API to submit jobs. The input and the output are structs. In particular, the output struct contains the job id.

#include     
LS_LONG_INT lsb_submit (struct submit *jobSubReq, struct submitReply *jobSubReply)