I run the processes as a scheduled job that does a CHGJOBSCDE at the end of processing. The advantage of this is that it's easy to hold the process to stop it, as opposed to have 24 or 48 scheduled jobs to deal with. Starting it means releasing and running the job schedule entry.
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It sure seems like there should be an easier way to do this, so let's see what everyone's done before.
I have an RPGLE program that needs to run at 15 and 45 minutes past the hour, every hour, every day, exactly. There are other dependent jobs, so the timing is important.
We have ROBOT installed, but when you use the job interval (run every 30
minutes) option, you lose the ability to choose the time the job runs the first time; it's as soon as you place it into ROBOT. That's great right up until we do an IPL each week and the return time from the IPL varies and ROBOT would submit the first run of the job as soon as it returned from the IPL (odds are that's not exactly on 15 or 45 past the hour). So that's not a player.
The easiest solution has always been to create a CLLE that's submitted from ROBOT (at a specific time each week sufficiently after the IPL on either a
15 or 45), and have that job then submit the RPGLE program and then do a
DLY(1800) and continue like that until the next IPL. I'm trying not to put a never-ending job on the system, if possible, that spends 99.999% of it's time just taking up space and being tracked by the system.
Has anyone come up with a better way to have a job execute (in this case twice per hour), at a specific time, that doesn't involve having a never-ending job running in the background?
Thanks,
Steve
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