RE: how to let my program sleep a while

OK, here's the opportunity I've been waiting for to ask for help 
understanding how procedures work.  All the examples I see have lots of 
useful but extraneous features included and so I get confused. 

Would this question be an example of where someone should write a 
Procedure (or whatever its called) named "Sleep" with a parm for 
sleeptime(*HMS) and then everyone in that organization would for evermore 
only need to write:

   C               CallP    Sleep('00:30:00')

and have the application sleep for 30 minutes?

And if so, is the procedure thingy hard to code and put in place?



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"jt" <jt@ee.net>
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John,

I always agree with you.  APIs are great!  At the same time, IMHO APIs are
one of the most over-used techniques which often complicate a program, and
end up buying you zip, nada, zilch (i.e. very little).  Of course, if you
don't have any concern about how much a program costs... well, then they 
are
certainly "cool" techniques.

In this particular case, I would say that it's 6 of one, half-dozen of the
other whether you call a CLP or use the QCMDEXC API:

CALL 'QCMDEXC'
PARM 'DLYJOB 300'  CmdName     10
PARM 10            CmdLength   15 5

jt


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Why make it complicated?   Call a 3 line CLP program to

PGM
DLYJOB(300)
ENDPGM

Now don't anyone dare tell me that calling a CLP program is slow when
the reason for doing it is to delay the job.

I don't think there is an API call that is less code,  easier to
understand,
and does the job.


John Carr
PS I love API calls myself.

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In my rpg program, I need to let my program sleep several minutes and
start again. Is there any API or functions to call (just like sleep()
in C).

ange <ange@public.tpt.tj.cn>

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