RE: AS/400 Program Call -- JAVA400-L

What if you used a data queue?  (instead of ProgramCall)

Phil

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-java400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-java400-l@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Madhavan
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2001 4:22 PM
To: JAVA400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: AS/400 Program Call

How about having a static variable that is updated to
"HELD" when client 1 is running and any other clients
start the process until the variable value is reset
back to "FREE". So process 2 sleeps until process 1 is
complete.

--- Duane Kehoe <dkehoe@weycogroup.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>       I have a program, that resides on a server and is
> called by serveral
> clients. Further one thread of this program calls
> programs on an AS/400
> that create a file, do some work, and returns to the
> java thread. My
> problem is this: I need to use the same file for all
> instances of the
> program calls on the AS/400 and I can not have more
> than 1 client
> calling the AS/400 programs at once as the file can
> not be overwritten
> by client 2 while client 1 is running the AS/400
> programs. I have
> syncronized the method of the thread but do not feel
> like this is
> sufficient. Does anyone have a suggestion. Thanks in
> advance.
>
> --
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