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docs: note that already-dispatched jobs cannot be updated
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tgross committed May 12, 2022
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could be used to lookup the work the job is suppose to do from a management
service or database.

Each time a job is dispatched, a unique job ID is generated. This allows a
caller to track the status of the job, much like a future or promise in some
programming languages.
Each time a job is dispatched, a unique job ID is generated. This
allows a caller to track the status of the job, much like a future or
promise in some programming languages. The dispatched job cannot be
updated after dispatching; to update the job definition you need to
update the parent job.

```hcl
job "docs" {
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