RE: Whats the best way to run a CL every 30 min

Brad,
"Do I have a JOBQ to tie up forever?" is certainly a viable concern!  The
opposing view is that there is a lot of overhead involved in creating a new
job.  Count the seconds that elapse between pressing Enter on the sign-on
display and the appearance of the command line...

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
mailto:Buck.Calabro@aptissoftware.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Felber 
> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:06 PM
> To:   RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Whats the best way to run a CL every 30 min
> 
> > > a scheduler such as Robot  I believe you will be limited to using the
> CLP
> > command DLYJOB. DLYJOB  DLY(1800) will delay the resumtion of the job
> for
> > 30 mins, but as the job has already started, you would need to be able
> to
> > run multiple jobs in your job queue. Let the CLP loop round to delay the
> > job again. No site I've worked at lets us use the scheduler due to risks
> of
> > conflict with backupts etc. (Chrali)
> 
> This is to everybody that said the DLYJOB.  The job is now in WRKACTJOB,
> WRKSBSJOB WRKUSRJOB as Active.  If you have more than one job that does
> something every half hour or every 5 minutes These jobs are always out
> there
> cluttering things up.  You can submit the job to a jobq that has *NOMAX as
> number of jobs with a sceduled time to start 30 minutes from the time it
> is
> ended.  To me this seems the cleanest way.  and if it's starting once per
> half hour, I think the time spent to start the job is less than the time
> to
> keep it running (even if it's in a DLY status)
> 
> Brad Felber
> 
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