Re: Delay job from RPGLE -- RPG400-L

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Or calculate the number of seconds from the current time to the desired resume time and sleep that number of seconds.

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On 7/9/2013 8:10 AM, Kevin Bucknum wrote:

I think he's asking for DLYJOB RSMTIME(101200) - but same concept.

If you wanted to do it all in RPG, you would have to sleep inside a
loop, and check the current time against the finish time every time the
sleep wakes up.

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Subject: Re: Delay job from RPGLE

On 7/9/2013 9:46 AM, Jeff Young wrote:

From an RPGLE program, how can I cause the job to wait for a specific
time before resuming? (Similar to the DLYJOB CL command)

QCMDEXC('QSYS/DLYJOB DLY(60)':20);

?

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