halt a COBOL program while executing

Hi there,

I want to halt my program while it is executing for just a minute or
two.

Is there any way I can make it happen in the COBOL code?

Please let me know if there is a way.

Is WAIT reserved word any good?



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See recent thread on "sleep".

The bottom-line is that

Yes, there are ways to do this

BUT

we need to know which compiler (vendor and release) and what operating syste
m
you are running on to answer the question of HOW to do it.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"neerajpeddu" <member@mainframeforum.com> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> I want to halt my program while it is executing for just a minute or
> two.
>
> Is there any way I can make it happen in the COBOL code?
>
> Please let me know if there is a way.
>
> Is WAIT reserved word any good?
>
>
>
> --
> posted via MFF :  http://www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway

> I want to halt my program while it is executing for just a minute or two
> Is there any way I can make it happen in the COBOL code
> Please let me know if there is a way
> Is WAIT reserved word any good
> posted via MFF :  http://www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway

Can we assume that since you posted via MainFrameForum that you are on an IB
M mainframe?
Since halting a batch program is usually illogical, can we assume you want t
o do this online in CICS?
Then:

EXEC CICS DELAY
FOR MINUTES (2)
END-EXEC.

works pretty well to halt a program for just minute or two.

If on an IBM mainframe, *and* running in batch, then use a call to ILBOWAT0

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Mike" <NoSpam@SpamStopper.org> wrote in message
news:zumdneuEk9b_8drcRVn_vA@giganews.com... 
>
> Can we assume that since you posted via MainFrameForum that you are on an 
IBM
> mainframe?
> Since halting a batch program is usually illogical, can we assume you want
 to
> do this online in CICS?
> Then:
>
> EXEC CICS DELAY
>            FOR MINUTES (2)
> END-EXEC.
>
> works pretty well to halt a program for just minute or two.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

In article <h5K1d.1368934$6p.235300@news.easynews.com>,
William M. Klein <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:
>If on an IBM mainframe, *and* running in batch, then use a call to ILBOWAT0

Well, I wasn't going to say anything about it... but I tried that today,
using both the example posted here (and a parm of S9(8)) and some old code
I'd gotten from... somewhere that used to work... on some version of the
MVS architecture (parm = S9(9) COMP)...

... and I compiled with IGYCRCTL (DATA(24)) and OldBol (IKFCBL00... it's
out there, you just gotta know where to look)... and I couldn't get the
thing to work at all, it either executed without a wait and gave a
completion code of 8 or it hung *so* long that I started to get scared
about hogging an initiator and I can'd the fool thing.  Maybe tomorrow
I'll post some specifics.

DD

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 20:16:35 GMT, neerajpeddu
<member@mainframeforum.com> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I want to halt my program while it is executing for just a minute or
>two.
>
>Is there any way I can make it happen in the COBOL code?
>
>Please let me know if there is a way.
>
>Is WAIT reserved word any good?

Check with  "William Cai" <wenliang_cai@yahoo.com.cn>

Doc,
One thing that *might* help is to use a DYNAMIC call, i.e.
Call identifier-with-ILBOWAT0-Value

If that doesn't work, I really would like to know the details - as this
certainly has worked in the past - and should with the OS/VS COBOL library, 
VS
COBOL II library or the LE run-time library.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
<docdwarf@panix.com> wrote in message news:ci7sb8$1k0$1@panix5.panix.com...
> In article <h5K1d.1368934$6p.235300@news.easynews.com>,
> William M. Klein <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote: 
>
> Well, I wasn't going to say anything about it... but I tried that today,
> using both the example posted here (and a parm of S9(8)) and some old code
> I'd gotten from... somewhere that used to work... on some version of the
> MVS architecture (parm = S9(9) COMP)...
>
> ... and I compiled with IGYCRCTL (DATA(24)) and OldBol (IKFCBL00... it's
> out there, you just gotta know where to look)... and I couldn't get the
> thing to work at all, it either executed without a wait and gave a
> completion code of 8 or it hung *so* long that I started to get scared
> about hogging an initiator and I can'd the fool thing.  Maybe tomorrow
> I'll post some specifics.
>
> DD

In article <DTK1d.1370656$6p.235711@news.easynews.com>,
William M. Klein <wmklein@nospam.netcom.com> wrote:
>Doc,
>  One thing that *might* help is to use a DYNAMIC call, i.e.
>   Call identifier-with-ILBOWAT0-Value

Doing that already, thanks.

>
>If that doesn't work, I really would like to know the details - as this
>certainly has worked in the past - and should with the OS/VS COBOL library,
 VS
>COBOL II library or the LE run-time library.

As I said, on the morrow... good to see an interest piqued!

DD

See recent thread on "sleep".

The bottom-line is that

Yes, there are ways to do this

BUT

we need to know which compiler (vendor and release) and what operating syste
m
you are running on to answer the question of HOW to do it.

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"neerajpeddu" <member@mainframeforum.com> wrote in message
news:1095192995.VTQVOLrNg25JumpqrRu95g@onlynews...
> Hi there,
>
> I want to halt my program while it is executing for just a minute or
> two.
>
> Is there any way I can make it happen in the COBOL code?
>
> Please let me know if there is a way.
>
> Is WAIT reserved word any good?
>
>
>
> --
> posted via MFF :  http://www.MainFrameForum.com - USENET Gateway

If on an IBM mainframe, *and* running in batch, then use a call to ILBOWAT0

--
Bill Klein
wmklein <at> ix.netcom.com
"Mike" <NoSpam@SpamStopper.org> wrote in message
news:zumdneuEk9b_8drcRVn_vA@giganews.com... 
>
> Can we assume that since you posted via MainFrameForum that you are on an 
IBM
> mainframe?
> Since halting a batch program is usually illogical, can we assume you want
 to
> do this online in CICS?
> Then:
>
> EXEC CICS DELAY
>            FOR MINUTES (2)
> END-EXEC.
>
> works pretty well to halt a program for just minute or two.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>