Re: Using the command DLYJOB in a CL program

["Timothy Adair" <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, forgot to mention that within the loop you have a delay of the number 
of seconds read in from the data area.




"Timothy Adair" <tadair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Alan,
>
> Someone mentioned using a data area.  This might help solve both your 
> needs (albeit, one of them in an ugly  way).
>
> Create the data area with a numeric value (let's say 30).  Instead of a 
> straight delay, have your CL pgm loop thru reading the data area 10 times 
> (10 x 30 = 300 seconds (5 minutes)).  At any point during the delay, you 
> could change the data area's value to zero and the most you'd have to wait 
> would be 30 seconds (a lot more palatable than 5 minutes).  Within this 
> loop, you could send a message to the job log, or even do a brkmsg giving 
> the elapsed time (number of iterations x data area value).  Yes it's ugly 
> but it works.
>
> Thanks to whoever originally mentioned this.





> "Alan Shore" <ashore@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Hi everyone
> I am in the process of testing a change that I have made to a CL program
> At the moment, the program is on a DLYJOB     DLY(300) command
> My questions are:-
>
> 1.      Is there any way of knowing the amount of elapsed time, and 
> therefore the amount of time left?
>
> 2.      Is there a way of changing this timespan while the program is 
> running?
>
> These are not deal breakers, but while I am waiting for the program to 
> continue (using STRDBG), it seems MUCH longer than 5 minutes have elapsed