diff --git a/execution/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/JobDao.java b/execution/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/JobDao.java
index c08cd4d9b..c0562dac9 100644
--- a/execution/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/JobDao.java
+++ b/execution/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/JobDao.java
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ public interface JobDao {
 	 * Identifier are found, then a list of size 0 will be returned.
 	 * 
 	 * @param jobIdentifier
-	 * @return List of jobs matching JobIdentifier
+	 * @return List of {@link JobInstance} objects matching {@link JobIdentifier}
 	 */
 	public List findJobs(JobIdentifier jobIdentifier);
 
diff --git a/execution/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/SqlJobDao.java b/execution/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/SqlJobDao.java
index f52854066..f0bde9da6 100644
--- a/execution/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/SqlJobDao.java
+++ b/execution/src/main/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/SqlJobDao.java
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ public class SqlJobDao implements JobDao, InitializingBean {
 	 * @throws IllegalArgumentException if any JobRuntimeInformation fields are
 	 * null.
 	 */
-	public List findJobs(JobIdentifier jobIdentifier) {
+	public List findJobs(final JobIdentifier jobIdentifier) {
 
 		ScheduledJobIdentifier defaultJobId = (ScheduledJobIdentifier) jobIdentifier;
 		validateJobRuntimeInformation(defaultJobId);
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@ public class SqlJobDao implements JobDao, InitializingBean {
 
 				JobInstance job = new JobInstance(new Long(rs.getLong(1)));
 				job.setStatus(BatchStatus.getStatus(rs.getString(2)));
+				job.setIdentifier(jobIdentifier);
 
 				return job;
 			}
diff --git a/execution/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/SqlJobDaoTests.java b/execution/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/SqlJobDaoTests.java
index 07d7e2daa..c6ac36c5e 100644
--- a/execution/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/SqlJobDaoTests.java
+++ b/execution/src/test/java/org/springframework/batch/execution/repository/dao/SqlJobDaoTests.java
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ public class SqlJobDaoTests extends AbstractTransactionalDataSourceSpringContext
 		assertTrue(jobs.size() == 1);
 		JobInstance tempJob = (JobInstance) jobs.get(0);
 		assertTrue(job.equals(tempJob));
+		assertEquals(jobRuntimeInformation, tempJob.getIdentifier());
 	}
 	
 	public void testFindJobWithNullRuntime(){