Yes, I did look at the code and the select statement and observed the same thing (that retries_ must be > 0 for a job to be considered acquirable). After changing the statement that migrates data from jbpm_timer to jbpm_job such that retries_ is set to 1 (instead of 0), my jobs ran (as required). That said, can someone from the jbpm group post an updated migration script that is in line with the code as of 3.2.3? View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4235724#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...