Re: Suspending batch jobs?

[Alan Novick <anovick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lloyd:

We have a job queue called NIGHTQ that we keep held during the day.  People can
submit jobs to it all day long.  The last step of the night time processing
releases the job queue and submits a job to NIGHTQ to hold it again after
everything is processed.

--
Alan Novick
Pressman Toy Corporation
New Brunswick, NJ


Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley) wrote:

> Is there a way to "suspend" a batch job, in the same manner that an
> interactive job can be suspended with the DSCJOB command? Some of our
> purges run overnight in batch, and rather than end them or let them run
> throughout the day, we'd like to suspend the job until the next evening.
> Any ideas or is it just impossible?
>
> Thanks,
> Loyd Goodbar
> Senior programmer/analyst
> Air/Fluid Systems
> Borg-Warner Automotive



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