Re: obtaining system uptime

["Booth Martin" <boothm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wake up the program?  That implies you also need to put it to sleep?  or 
do you wish to just pause it for 2 minutes?  (I'm thinking that a loop that 
SUBDURs the time the loop started from the present time until the 
difference equals 2 minutes would be as effective as any other choice, 
and easier to operate.)

As a matter of curiosity, what is the need?  Would a data queue work 
better for you?

About the uptime... why not create a data area. Then, in the AS/400 
startup program fill the data area with a date stamp?  Write a short 
program that just SUBDURs that value from current values? 

Date sent:              Wed, 5 Jan 2000 03:49:58 -0700 (MST)
From:                   James David Rich <james@dansfoods.com>
To:                     RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject:                obtaining system uptime
Send reply to:          RPG400-L@midrange.com

> I need to get the system uptime or the time when the system was last
> booted into a program.  An all night review of the books at publib.ibm.com
> gives me nothing useful.
> 
> I also need something to wake up my program every 120 seconds or
> so.  Something like signal handlers.
> 
> Anyone know how to do this?
> 
> 
> James Rich
> james@dansfoods.com
Booth Martin       boothm@goddard.edu
http://www.spy.net/~booth
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