Re: Suspending batch jobs?

[Pete Hall <peteh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:11 08/19/98 -0400, Loyd Goodbar 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?

Welllll...

You can hold them (HLDJOB). They'll just set there and consume no CPU cycles 
until you release them (RLSJOB) again. They will however, retain any 
object/record locks that they may have had when they were running, and they 
will consume an active job slot for the job queue, so if they're in single 
threaded queues, nothing else will be able to run. If you ran them in their own 
job queue, that wouldn't be a problem, but you'd still have the problem with 
object and record locks, as you would with disconnected jobs also.

hth
Pete

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

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