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James, This is what I was going to suggest also. If you wanted to add a feature for the user's benefit, you could have 2 progress bars (where I gather they only get one now, for the current job step). You could do a couple quick timings of what percentage each program approximately takes. Add a field to *DTAARA, to log step the job is on. And then add a second progress bar for the percentage of total job completed. Probably do all this for less time than setting up the *DTAQ. As you said, James, the *DTAARA approach can also be used to lock out the second CL from being run (on another terminal, for example), prior to the first CL being 100% complete. It was mentioned that if the job hangs, the *DTAARA needs cleared, but then, in a check-run (I think this was?), someone's likely to be looking into abend pretty closely anyway (I'd think...;-). One line of docs in the header should do the trick. jt | -----Original Message----- | From: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com | [mailto:midrange-l-admin@midrange.com]On Behalf Of Nathan M. Andelin | Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 11:36 PM | To: midrange-l@midrange.com | Subject: Re: Interactive lock down while batch runs | | | From: "James W. Kilgore" <eMail@James-W-Kilgore.com> | > Back to my original question and the problem I'm trying to | > solve: How do I lock up the work station, showing step | > progress bars, while submitting the whole process to batch | > to use the better CPW? | | Do I understand the question? The interactive job could alternate between | displaying the progress bar and checking the data area for new | status. The | batch job updates the data area (status). The WAITRCD parameter on the | CRTDSPF command specifies the maximum number of seconds to wait for the | display file read operation before returning control to the | interactive job. | | If you wanted to show a progress bar in a browser as an alternative to a | 5250 screen, you could set a refresh interval for the HTML page. The page | could make a request to a program to check the data area and update the | progress bar accordingly. | | HTH, | | Nathan M. Andelin | www.relational-data.com | | | | | _______________________________________________ | This is the Midrange Systems Technical Discussion (MIDRANGE-L) | mailing list | To post a message email: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com | To subscribe, unsubscribe, or change list options, | visit: http://lists.midrange.com/cgi-bin/listinfo/midrange-l | or email: MIDRANGE-L-request@midrange.com | Before posting, please take a moment to review the archives | at http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l. |
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