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> 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.
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