Hanging job on faulty zone configuration

Hi forum,
I have scheduled a few update jobs on a system with a zone configured.
The problem was, that the zone itself was unable to boot because its root-FS was unavailable.
So the update process wasn't able to start and update the zone.
The end effect is now, that the 8 updates were applied to the base system successfully, but the update jobs at the Update-Connection website are still marked as "in progress". Although I can't reapply the jobs because they are already on the system, I'm not able to archive the running jobs.
This is just an optical issue, updates still apply perfectly well to the system.
Is there a way to send the web-site the "job successful/failed" flag for these jobs from the system?
Thanks
Mathias

The 'In Progress' updates should disappear after a while - there is a cron job run on the updates.sun.com site which takes care of this.
If the updates aren't gone in, say, a week then I'd raise a support case.

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