RE: Do Forever Loop

[Buck Calabro <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jim Langston wrote:     

>I have written a program that is to be add to the job scheduler
>that has a do forever loop (DoW 1=1).  I remember hearing some
>discussion that there was something you were supposed to do so
>programs could close gracefully if given an ENDJOB.

Hi Jim - look into SHTDN.  Alternatively, let your job wait in a RCVMSG or
QRCVDTAQ.  Send a message like "shutdown" to that message queue and the
program will immediately wake up as the message hits the queue.  It depends
if your loop is a "do something" or "wait for something to happen" thing.

Buck Calabro
Aptis; Albany, NY
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 that which we least know" -- Michel Montaigne
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