Re: How to make a program "sleep" for an amount of time? -- RPG400-L

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Subject: Re: How to make a program "sleep" for an amount of time?
From: Douglas Handy <dhandy@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2005 10:37:25 -0500
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Mike,

> Supposing I want to access an object and I find it is locked, and now
> I want my program to "sleep", or wait, for say 10 minutes and then loop
> back and try again.

While others have answered the question you asked (how to sleep from
RPG), have you considered just doing an ALOCOBJ ... WAIT( seconds ) ?

That way you'd not wait the full 10 minutes if it became available
sooner, yet still not consume resources in a loop checking.

Doug

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