RE: obtaining system uptime

Change your startup program to put the system time stamp to data area.
Rtvsysval qdate &date
chgdtaara ipldate &date
... repeat for qtime.

For waking up ever xx seconds, you can wait at a data queue for xx seconds.
If no data received, do your normal processing.  I like data queues because
you get more control.  You can send data queue entries to end/re-start or
change the wait time to the data queue and your program wakes up instantly
and processes the data queue entries.

Good Luck,


Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: James David Rich [mailto:james@dansfoods.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 2:50 AM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: obtaining system uptime


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
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