RE: how to let my program sleep a while

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I like this approach better than qcmdexc or system(), mainly because you
could add a parm to the cl that would specify the delay length.  To me that
would be a lot easier than reformatting the call string every time for
different values.  I know it just involves concatenating a new string for
the delay time, but I'm old, lazy, and absent minded. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM [mailto:jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM]
> Sent: Sunday, September 17, 2000 8:25 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: how to let my program sleep a while
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Why make it complicated?   Call a 3 line CLP program to
> 
> PGM
> DLYJOB(300)
> ENDPGM
> 
> Now don't anyone dare tell me that calling a CLP program is slow when
> the reason for doing it is to delay the job.
> 
> I don't think there is an API call that is less code,  easier to
> understand,
> and does the job.
> 
> 
> John Carr
> PS I love API calls myself.
> 
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