Re: I want the system to hold my program until more data arrives.........

Hi Murali,

Your mention of EOFDLY is the way to make a program wait at EOF for new
records.  Prompt OVRDBF, position the cursor on the EOFDLY parm, press F1,
and read all about it.  There are two things to consider using this
technique -- a way to end gracefully (mentioned in the help text), and how
long a delay to use (a short delay processes new records quickly, but uses
more processing time because it "wakes up" more often).

hth,
Peter Dow
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----- Original Message -----
From: "MURALI DHAR" <nmuralidhar@rediffmail.com>
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 9:03 AM
Subject: I want the system to hold my program until more data
arrives.........


> Iam just reading "pf" in RPG..Occassionally,instead of telling the
> program there is no more data,I want the system to hold my program
> until more data arrives in the file.when the more data arrives in
> the file,the program can read the newly arrived records..how can i
> do this type of processing in RPG....In CL i guess i can mention
> EOFDLY parameter on OVRDBF.....