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Sorry, forgot to mention that within the loop you have a delay of the number of seconds read in from the data area.




"Timothy Adair" <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mailman.2378.1325781546.2619.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...
Alan,

Someone mentioned using a data area. This might help solve both your needs (albeit, one of them in an ugly way).

Create the data area with a numeric value (let's say 30). Instead of a straight delay, have your CL pgm loop thru reading the data area 10 times (10 x 30 = 300 seconds (5 minutes)). At any point during the delay, you could change the data area's value to zero and the most you'd have to wait would be 30 seconds (a lot more palatable than 5 minutes). Within this loop, you could send a message to the job log, or even do a brkmsg giving the elapsed time (number of iterations x data area value). Yes it's ugly but it works.

Thanks to whoever originally mentioned this.





"Alan Shore" <ashore@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:mailman.2036.1325706670.2619.midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx...
Hi everyone
I am in the process of testing a change that I have made to a CL program
At the moment, the program is on a DLYJOB DLY(300) command
My questions are:-

1. Is there any way of knowing the amount of elapsed time, and therefore the amount of time left?

2. Is there a way of changing this timespan while the program is running?

These are not deal breakers, but while I am waiting for the program to continue (using STRDBG), it seems MUCH longer than 5 minutes have elapsed


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