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OPNQRYF wouldn't care about the delay...but is there something else,
like a submitted program  that creates a file, that needs the delay?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: OPNQRYF / DLYJOB?
> From: daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Tue, November 15, 2005 9:19 am
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We have a job that's been around for years that everybody and his brother
> runs on Monday mornings to get a report of labor hours over the weekend for
> their facility, department, workcenter, etc.  It gets run sporadically
> throughout the week.  It takes a couple of minutes to run and the job queue
> tends to back up a bit.  It consists of a CL program wrapper that calls a
> RPG program (that I converted to RPG IV two years ago).  It does:
> 
> OVRDBF     FILE(LABORRPT) SHARE(*YES)
> OPNQRYF    FILE((LABORRPT)) FORMAT(*FILE) QRYSLT(' +
> {more selection stuff goes here}
> 
> and then has a
> DLYJOB     DLY(60)
> 
> before doing another OVRDBF and OPNQRYF on another file before it actually
> calls the RPG.
> 
> The program needs rewritten for several reasons but due to other priorities
> it probably won't happen soon.  Aside from the "business" reasons of many
> people running the same report over and over, is there any need for the
> DLYJOB that anyone can think of?  If not, removing it could knock about 20
> minutes of lost time.  There's nothing about OPNQRYF that needs a delay is
> there?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> Dave Parnin
> --
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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