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Periodically run a job -- manually


Kenny Barnes
05.30.2003
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Do you need to have a job run periodically but don't want to have to deal with manually starting it every time? I wrote a monitor to check, and warn me if certain jobs weren't running. I needed this "health monitor" to run every fifteen minutes but I did not want to have it sitting in QBATCH with a DLYJOB. Instead I submitted it as a scheduled job and then after it checks the jobs, it adds fifteen minutes to whatever time it is and submits itself as a scheduled job. With this code (and it could probably be cleaned up some), one could take any periodic job and have it run itself.



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 *****************************************************                         
 * Submit the scheduled job                                                    
 *****************************************************                         
                                                                               
C     submitagain   begsr                                                      
                                                                               
 * First see if the health monitor is running                                  
C                   clear                   command                            
C                   eval      command = 'OVRPRTF FILE(QSYSPRT) HOLD(*YES) '    
C                             + 'OVRSCOPE(*JOB)'                               
C                   callp(e)  execcommand(command:length)                      
                                                                               
C                   clear                   command                            
C                   eval      command = 'WRKJOBSCDE JOB(XCHCOM'                
C                                    + %trim(invendid) + ') OUTPUT(*PRINT)'    
C                   callp(e)  execcommand(command:length)                      
                                                                               
C                   clear                   command                            
C                   eval      command = 'CPYF FROMFILE(JHAXCI/XCSPLF) '        
C                                     + 'TOFILE(QTEMP/XCSPLF) '                
C                                     + 'MBROPT(*REPLACE) '                    
C                                     + 'CRTFILE(*YES)'                        
C                   callp(e)  execcommand(command:length)                
                                                                         
C                   clear                   command                      
C                   eval      command = 'CPYSPLF FILE(QSYSPRT) '         
C                                     + 'TOFILE(QTEMP/XCSPLF) '          
C                                     + 'SPLNBR(*LAST) '                 
C                                     + 'MBROPT(*REPLACE)'               
C                   callp(e)  execcommand(command:length)                
                                                                         
C                   callp     dltovr('QSYSPRT')                          
                                                                         
C                   clear                   command                      
C                   eval      command = 'DLTSPLF FILE(QSYSPRT) '         
C                                     + 'SPLNBR(*LAST)'                  
C                   callp(e)  execcommand(command:length)                
                                                                         
C                   callp     ovrdbfqtemp('XCSPLF')                      
C                   open      xcsplf                                     
C                   do        5                                          
C                   read      rxcsplf                                99  
C                   enddo                                                
C                   close     xcsplf                                     
C                   callp     dltovr('XCSPLF')                           
                                                                          
 * If health monitor is running then end this madness                     
C                   if        %subst(splfdata:2:10) = 'XCHCOM' + invendid 
C                   goto      endpgm                                      
C                   endif                                                 
                                                                          
C                   time                    ztime                         
C                   adddur    15:*minutes   ztime                         
C                   extrct    ztime:*m      zmm                           
C                   extrct    ztime:*d      zdd                           
C                   extrct    ztime:*y      zyyyy                         
C                   move      zyyyy         zyy                           
C                   extrct    ztime:*h      zhh                           
C                   extrct    ztime:*mn     zmn                           
C                   extrct    ztime:*s      zss                           
                                                                          
C                   clear                   command                       
                                                                          
C                   eval      command = 'ADDJOBSCDE JOB(XCHCOM'           
C                             + %trim(invendid)                           
C                             +  ') CMD(CALL PGM(JHAXCI/XCHCOM) '         
C                             +  'PARM(''*Next'' ''' + %trim(invendid)    
C                             +  ''')) FRQ(*ONCE) '                       
C                             +  'SCDDATE(' + zmm + zdd + zyy + ') '      
C                             +  'SCDTIME(' + zhh + zmn + zss + ') '
C                             +  'MSGQ(*NONE) '                     
C                             +  'TEXT(''JHAXCI Health Monitor'')'  
                                                                    
C                   callp(e)  execcommand(command:length)           
                                                                    
C                   endsr      
  
  


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