RE: HELP!! DLYJOB command

On Tuesday, April 22, 1997, Tom Huntington wrote:

>I am only guessing but is it also possible that your process of putting
> the job in motion also puts qsysopr in break mode?  If so, chances are
> that a message occurred during the evening that caused your workstation
> to break and hence preventing the resume time from occurring.  So when
> the operator hit enter on the screen the break message went away and so
> your program also executed the endsbs as instructed.

No - one of the first statements is 'CHGMSGQ MSGQ(QSYSOPR)  DLVRY(*HOLD)

> 1. You could put some time parameters in your clp to not execute your
> statements if you are outside a specific time range like after 5:00 am
> in the morning.

Thanks for the suggestion, it's something to think about but I'd like to be 
able to use DLYJOB which I
presume is more efficient.

> 2.  You could monitor qsysopr with a break message program and ignore any 

> messages.

Thanks.  Not viable in my situation.

> 3.  Buy a product that automates this for you.  Of course at Help/Systems 

> we have just the product for you.  Robot/SAVE can do all of this plus
> track all of your media.

In fact I expect to be re-thinking our entire backup strategy and job 
scheduling in the very near future.  I will certainly take vendor solutions 
into consideration, including Robot products (No need to send anything - I'm 
on your 'blitz em with everything we got' mailing list).

Thank you for your input.

Regards,

Bob Clarke

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