Re: Inactivity Timer: More thoughts

["Shannon O'Donnell" <ORION@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

well, actually I'm trying to prevent them from timing out in the first place. I
know what the device names will be (they're the same everytime).  I just want to
keep the job from ending, even though the system value QINACTITV has been set to
some predetermined time.

Thanks!

Shannon O'Donnell

Murphy, Guy wrote:

>         In case your *VRT devices get their model types recycled so that you
> won't always know what type the device will be from one session to the next,
> you can use the the API QDCRDEVD to get the device type from the device
> description.
>         Here are some CL program statements from a program which uses this
> API.
>
> DCL &DEVDATA    *CHAR 1000
> DCL &DEVDATAL   *CHAR 4 X'000003E8'
> DCL &FORMAT     *CHAR 8 'DEVD0600'
> DCL &DEVICE     *CHAR 10
> DCL &MODEL      *CHAR 10
> DCL &ERROR      *CHAR 116

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