Re: Suspending batch jobs?

Why not change the job that every so often (1000 records or something), it reads
a control file or data area, and if a value was on, it would close itself down 
in
an orderly fashion.

 Pete

Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley) wrote:

> We're trying to suspend a batch job while it's active without it
> plugging the subsystem. We have a purge that runs periodically over
> night and some time the next day. When we come in the morning, we want
> to suspend that active batch purge until the next evening.
>
>         -----Original Message-----
>         From:   Alan Novick [SMTP:anovick@bellatlantic.net]
>         Sent:   Wednesday, August 19, 1998 11:37 AM
>         To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>         Subject:        Re: Suspending batch jobs?
>
>         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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