Re: Job Scheduler Question

At 09:09 AM 4/24/98 -0400, Steve Raisor wrote: 
>
> We have a EDI job we wish to run once a hour...the AS/400 job scheduler only
> seems to allow a job to be run once a day.  Besides the obvious of placing
> the entries on the scheduler 8 to 10 times does anyone have any ideas of how
> to accomplish this??  I have thought about delay jobs and the such, but if
> the system were to be powered off during the day...what could be done to
> start the process at the right place??  Thanks for your help in advance!!


Steve,

You could start the job with an autostart job entry and use DLYJOB to wake it
up once an hour. If the system ends when it's processing, you would need to use
some kind of checkpoint logic to restart in the right place. I've used a data
area for this a few times. When the program starts, it reads the data area and
then branches to the appropriate spot based on the value it finds. When the
program finishes processing, it resets the data area to some recognizable
initial value. Each time a job step completes, it updates the data area with a
value that will cause the next step to be executed on startup.

hth
Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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