RE: jobscde question

For what it costs you to purchase Robot, let alone maintenance fees, you 
could hire a team of people to do a separate ADDJOBSCDE for the last 
working day of every month for the next couple of years.

I'm all a big fan of not reinventing the wheel, but after seeing the 
ridiculous annual maintenance bill on one piece of software we have I am 
starting to have second thoughts.  We could literally hire an entry level 
programmer for that amount.  And normally we only call on that when we 
upgrade our OS/400 and it fails to work.  I fail to see why someone feels 
that "the industry percentage" is applicable.  A low priced package might 
need a higher percentage than a high priced package.  Heck, I think 
WorksRight gives their stuff away providing you sign up for maintenance.

Rob Berendt
-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." 
Benjamin Franklin 




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I don't believe it recognizes working days. The help text is pretty clear 
- 
*MONTHEND is the last day of the month - no qulaifiers. ROBOT does 
recognize working days, it can even use a calendar where you define 
holidays and other working.non-working days. The IBM Advanced Job 
Scheduler 
(licensed product, also costs money) might.
HTH

You could write something that is scheduled the last 3 (or ? - 3 would 
catch a Friday in a month that ends on Sunday) days of the month which 
would check your criteria. There are APIs that can give you the day of the 

week - SQL can do it, too. You can work out the rest.

Vern

At 02:16 PM 10/15/2003 +0100, you wrote:

>Ok, but always on a working day ?
>
>If the end of the month is a sunday , the message will be sent the friday
>before (last working day of the month ) ?
>
>USNDMSGBRK   SCD    *MONTHEND  15:00:00  *MONTHLY    *SBMRLS   31/10/03


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