Re: Scheduling a more-frequently-than-daily job?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Agreed. This is one of the selling points for AJS.

There is a LOT more in there of course but this step capability alone 
has sold it for several customers of mine.


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On 1/31/2020 7:10 PM, Roger Harman wrote:
> Advanced job scheduler can do this, I believe.
>
> Do you have that installed?
>
> Roger Harman
> COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
>
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> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of James H. H. Lampert <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, January 31, 2020 3:34 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Scheduling a more-frequently-than-daily job?
>
> Fellow Midrange geeks and geekettes:
>
> Most of you probably already know that my "weapon of choice" for setting
> up a job to run periodically is a self-perpetuating batch job: when
> runs, it schedules its own next run.
>
> I do understand the basics of job schedule entries, but I'm not always
> in a position to use them, and I figured out self-perpetuating batch
> jobs before I learned about them.
>
> Now, I have situations that call for a job to run not just daily, but
> *hourly* (at least during business hours). I've got it set up with
> self-perpetuating batch jobs, but I just took a look at WRKJOBSCDE and
> ADDJOBSCDE. I don't see anything there for setting up a job schedule
> entry for more than once daily.
>
> Is there a way, short of setting up a separate job schedule entry for
> every time the job should run during a typical day?
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> JHHL