RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah... -- MIDRANGE-L

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You can do that in the Unix world too. That is what cron jobs are for. I
don't know any more detail than that though.

-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pluta [mailto:joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 8:35 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: RE: At the risk of sounding like an AS/400 rah-rah...

> From: Adam Lang
>
> Well, that batch problem is something we have on the AS/400 too.  When we
> run our end of day processing, no one can be logged into the
> system because if any records are open the cycle won't run.

Batch jobs colliding with online users is just a fact of data processing
life.  The point is that on the AS/400, you can schedule jobs to be run
unattended when nobody is on the machine.

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