Re: WAITFILE(*CLS)?

On 20 Dec 2012 07:53, David Gibbs wrote:

I'm having a bit of a brain cramp ... the CHGPF command has a
parameter WAITTIME [<ed: WAITFILE, per subject]...
most of the parameter values make sense, but the special value
*CLS doesn't.

*CLS
The default wait time specified in the class description is used
as the wait time for the file resources that are allocated.

Where is the class description for a file (physical or logical)
defined for the file ... and where do you define class descriptions?

As already described by Rob in another reply... However the "default wait time" that is established from the *CLS object for the initiation\creation of a job was eventually extended with the DFTWAIT() parameter of the CHGJOB CL command, to enable the adjustment of that attribute specific to a job [rather than all jobs under the WM using that Class]. AFaIK the specification of WAITFILE(*CLS), the "Maximum file wait time" on either the OVRDBF or the CRTxF or CHGxF uses the Default Wait Time value from the job, not from the actual Class object [type *CLS]; i.e. the help text should probably be more clear that the *CLS refers to the Default Wait for the job.

Note: very important to understand that this WAITFILE parameter applies to "open" requests; i.e. many will incorrectly refer to this parameter when some other non-open operation against a *FILE object has timed out, to infer how long that non-open operation should have waited.