Re: Terminating an idle batch job

Trevor, 

Can you give us more detail? If these programs were written by someone 
else, do you have any support available? Or has someone left precipitously 
without leaving any documentation?

I am wondering if your batch programs are like what I've got at my site. 
We run MAC-PAC which has several "Monitor" programs that sit and wait for 
requests to do back-end processing. Most wait for records to be put into a 
workfile and are usually on EOFW. A couple wait for requests to be put 
into a message queue, and are usually on MSGW. 

There's a separate program that sends shutdown messages to all the 
monitors at end of day. Maybe you just need to find the equivalent for 
your case.




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Colin,

Thanks for the suggestion.

My problem is (sorry for not being more specific), is that these programs
were written by someone else and I have no code - and cannot code them.

Thanks,
Trevor

----- Original Message ----- 
Subject: Re: Terminating an idle batch job


> Trevor,
>
> try using a dataqueue or data area, or even a flag on a file,
> that you check every so often, on each iteration of your process, to
> determine whether your batch job should end
>
> cheers
> Colin.W

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