RE: Suspending batch jobs?

["Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley)" <LGoodbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If the job is running in a single threaded subsystem, will HLDJOB leave
the job in the subsystem and prevent other jobs from processing?

        -----Original Message-----
        From:   John Earl [SMTP:johnearl@toolnet.com]
        Sent:   Wednesday, August 19, 1998 11:26 AM
        To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
        Subject:        Re: Suspending batch jobs?

        HLDJOB?

        It will suspend running of the batch job, but it will also plug
up whatever
        jobq/subsystem that it occupies.

        jte

        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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