Re: Delay job from RPGLE

I would ask myself why I wanted a delay - what will the job be waiting for ?

I use DTAQ in online programs that has to wait for a submitted batch
process
to finish otherwise I would use a sleep() even though I hardly can't see
the reason.


On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry Ken - I still don't understand. What am I missing here?

Isn't any poor sucker who has to maintain this code in the future going to
waste a lot of time wondering what the heck this DQ is being used for and
why?

Surely invoking a function that directly says what it is doing (e.g.
sleep() ) has to be more obvious. I just can't see any advantage to this
approach and several disadvantages.


On 2013-07-12, at 9:33 AM, Ken Sims <mdrg8066@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jul 2013 07:49:49 -0500, Justin Taylor
<JUSTIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"For "never ending" jobs that do a delay, I personally prefer to NOT
see CMD-DLYJOB.

I use a wait on a data queue entry against a data queue created in
QTEMP.

Ken"


O_o Mind explaining your reasoning?

I want to see the natural PGM-xxxxxxxx function. Also, I happen to
think that DEQW looks "nicer" than DLYW for the status.

And the DLY function information that is displayed isn't going to be
helpful because my "never ending" jobs only delay for 15 seconds at a
time, then check for a controlled shutdown request.

How often they do any actual processing depends on the specific job.
Some count a particular number of 15-second delays. Others look for
specific clock items. For example, a job may do processing every ten
minutes on the ten minutes.

Ken
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of my employer or anyone in their right mind.
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