unable to abort queued scheduled job

Question

I have an apex job scheduled by mistake and now I cannot able to delete that. Due to that, I cannot able to edit my existing apex class. I tried the steps from Salesforce.com artice and when I execute system.abortjob('jobid') from Apex execute in workbench, I am getting following error

COMPILE ERROR: Unexpected token '('. LINE: 1 COLUMN: 16

Can anyone suggest is there any other approach so that I can abort the queued job

Answer 1

You have forgotten the ; in the code on the end of the line. If you change your code to this, it will work:

System.abortJob('jobid');

Answer 2

I think you have some mistakes in your abort code, but i think you can delete your scheduler job in setup->Scheduled Jobs.