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Brad, "Do I have a JOBQ to tie up forever?" is certainly a viable concern! The opposing view is that there is a lot of overhead involved in creating a new job. Count the seconds that elapse between pressing Enter on the sign-on display and the appearance of the command line... Buck Calabro Aptis; Albany, NY mailto:Buck.Calabro@aptissoftware.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Brad Felber > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 1999 4:06 PM > To: RPG400-L@midrange.com > Subject: Re: Whats the best way to run a CL every 30 min > > > > a scheduler such as Robot I believe you will be limited to using the > CLP > > command DLYJOB. DLYJOB DLY(1800) will delay the resumtion of the job > for > > 30 mins, but as the job has already started, you would need to be able > to > > run multiple jobs in your job queue. Let the CLP loop round to delay the > > job again. No site I've worked at lets us use the scheduler due to risks > of > > conflict with backupts etc. (Chrali) > > This is to everybody that said the DLYJOB. The job is now in WRKACTJOB, > WRKSBSJOB WRKUSRJOB as Active. If you have more than one job that does > something every half hour or every 5 minutes These jobs are always out > there > cluttering things up. You can submit the job to a jobq that has *NOMAX as > number of jobs with a sceduled time to start 30 minutes from the time it > is > ended. To me this seems the cleanest way. and if it's starting once per > half hour, I think the time spent to start the job is less than the time > to > keep it running (even if it's in a DLY status) > > Brad Felber > +--- | This is the RPG/400 Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to RPG400-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to RPG400-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to RPG400-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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