Hello, @John Bruce !
I'm glad that you were able to resolve your issue and thank you for posting your solution so that others experiencing the same thing can easily reference this! Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that "The question author cannot accept their own answer. They can only accept answers by others ", I'll repost your solution in case you'd like to "Accept " the answer.
Issue:
Unable to run Q# program jobs when using VS Code (or the VS Code webapp).
Error message: There was a problem submitting the job to 'ionq'. Please check the provider's status and try submitting the job again later.
Solution (provided by John Bruce):
Changed to Qiskit and got it working.
If you have any other questions or are still running into more issues, please let me know. Thank you again for your time and patience throughout this issue.
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