How to make a program "sleep" for an amount of time? -- RPG400-L

Subject: How to make a program "sleep" for an amount of time?
From: "Gottlieb, Mike" <MGottlieb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:04:43 -0500
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Supposing I want to access an object and I find it is locked, and now
I want my program to "sleep", or wait, for say 10 minutes and then loop
back and try again.

Is there a way (API perhaps?) that RPGLE can do this?

TIA
 
Michael

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RE: How to make a program "sleep" for an amount of time? , Bob Cozzi
Re: How to make a program "sleep" for an amount of time? , Douglas Handy
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