Re: Whats the best way to run a CL every 30 min

["James W. Kilgore" <qappdsn@xxxxxxx>]

Albert,

I like your technique.  It is certainly more "robust" than a simple DLYJOB.

We use both.  It depended on how important the job was.

Like we have a command which performs a ping every 15 seconds to make sure our
internet connection stays alive.  If the connection dies and the two remote 
sites
(one person at each) get a dropped connection message, they get on the phone and
anyone can key in the command that submits this job.  In our case not very
critical, easy to solve.

We also have several jobs which read off of data queues to print bar code labels
and we use these queues to change the behavior of the program.  There is a
scanning station, a machine the product goes through (that can operate at
variable speeds), then the bar code printer.  We can change the time delay 
caused
by the intermediate machine on the fly and that sure is nice.  We like to time 
it
that a label gets printed just as the machine spits out the product.

Another one of those "it depends" cases/solutions <g>



"York, Albert" wrote:

> I prefer waiting on a data queue rather than using DLYJOB. That way you can
> get to job to process any time by sending something to the data queue.  You
> can also have the job end gracefully by sending a special command to the
> data queue. It adds flexibility to your job.
>
>

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