Re: how to let my program sleep a while

Yes.

No.

Gary Guthrie
REAL Solutions Technical Support
NEWS/400 Technical Editor



booth@martinvt.com wrote:
> 
> OK, here's the opportunity I've been waiting for to ask for help
> understanding how procedures work.  All the examples I see have lots of
> useful but extraneous features included and so I get confused.
> 
> Would this question be an example of where someone should write a
> Procedure (or whatever its called) named "Sleep" with a parm for
> sleeptime(*HMS) and then everyone in that organization would for evermore
> only need to write:
> 
>    C               CallP    Sleep('00:30:00')
> 
> and have the application sleep for 30 minutes?
> 
> And if so, is the procedure thingy hard to code and put in place?
> 
> _______________________
> Booth Martin
> Booth@MartinVT.com
> http://www.MartinVT.com
> _______________________
> 
> "jt" <jt@ee.net>
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> 09/17/2000 12:30 PM
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>         Subject:        RE: how to let my program sleep a while
> 
> John,
> 
> I always agree with you.  APIs are great!  At the same time, IMHO APIs are
> one of the most over-used techniques which often complicate a program, and
> end up buying you zip, nada, zilch (i.e. very little).  Of course, if you
> don't have any concern about how much a program costs... well, then they
> are
> certainly "cool" techniques.
> 
> In this particular case, I would say that it's 6 of one, half-dozen of the
> other whether you call a CLP or use the QCMDEXC API:
> 
> CALL 'QCMDEXC'
> PARM 'DLYJOB 300'  CmdName     10
> PARM 10            CmdLength   15 5
> 
> jt
> 
> --------------------------------
> 
> 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.
> 
> --------------------------------
> In my rpg program, I need to let my program sleep several minutes and
> start again. Is there any API or functions to call (just like sleep()
> in C).
> 
> ange <ange@public.tpt.tj.cn>
> 
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