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

On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Joe Pluta wrote:

> > 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.
>
> ANYTHING you can do in one computer you can do in another.  It's just a
> matter of how it's done.  In Unix, you update a table:
>
> 01 * * * * root echo "This command is run at one min past every hour"

[snipped rest of table]

> In OS/400, it's something like this (for the 4AM job):
>
> ADDJOBSCDE JOB(MYJOB) CMD(CALL PGM(MYPGM))
>            FRQ(*WEEKLY) SCDDAY(*SUN) SCDTIME(0400)
>
> It's much easier to add a one-shot job using ADDJOBSCDE than it is to use
> cron.  But like I said, it can be done.

If you wanted a one time job then use the correct tool: the 'at' command.
You can even schedule things to run on a given queue.  If your jobs are in
file MYPGM then you would do:

at -f MYPGM 04am Jan 19

Pretty easy I think.  at and cron can do a lot of things that can't be
done easily with ADDJOBSCDE.

James Rich