Re: Batch/interactive interaction

>  Lance wrote:
>
>  > Is there a way to have an interactive program submit
>  > something to batch and then wait for the batch job
>  > to finish before continuing?
>
>  Yes, and you can do it without having the batch job take any special action
>  such as sending messages, adding entries to a data queue, setting flags in
>  a data area and so on. When a submitted job ends either normally or
>  abnormally it automatically sends a completion message. By default the
>  message goes to the queue specified in the user profile of the job
>  submitter, but you can direct it to any message queue. Your interactive job
>  can then sit on a message queue wait until it receives the job completion
>  message. To simplify matters you might want to reserve a particular message
>  queue just for this function.

Thanks, Dave.  This is just what I was looking for.