Abstract: An apparatus, program product and method utilize a service entry point to trigger under a predetermined set of conditions to facilitate gaining control of a created job in a multi-job environment, namely when the job within which the service entry point was hit is not currently under debug, the job has an attribute that is common to another job that established the service entry point, and there is another job waiting to begin servicing a job having the same attribute. By conditioning a service entry point on these conditions, service operations may be initiated on a created job with significantly less difficulty, e.g., by automatically halting the job hitting the service entry point and/or providing the pending service job with a job identifier to identify to such service job of the identity of the job within which the service entry point was hit.