SYNCHRONIZING CONTROL AND OUTPUT OF COMPUTING TASKS

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system for tracking control for computing tasks receives a reference to a control file specifying a computing task. The system submits the specified task for performance on a computing system in accordance with the control file and receives an identifier for the performance of the task. The system stores information associating the identifier and the reference, and, in response to receiving a request for information associated with the identifier, returns the associated reference. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for maintaining metadata for computing tasks in substantially the same manners described above.