Re: Easy way to make an RPG program wait? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: Easy way to make an RPG program wait?
From: Mark Waterbury <mark.s.waterbury@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2024 00:07:53 +0000 (UTC)
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See:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/i/7.4?topic=instructions-wait-time-waittime

On Monday, November 18, 2024 at 07:00:38 PM EST, James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I find that I need to have a job wait for a process to complete on
another system. Giving it a full second should do it. And if it doesn't,
I can increase the delay.

In CL, we have, of course, DLYJOB DLY(nn) to force a job to cool its
heels for nn seconds.

Is there anything out there that's easier from RPG than just calling
QCMDEXC to shell out a DLYJOB?

JHHL

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