Re: Microfocus Cobol "SLEEP" routine

"C C" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello.

Is there a way in MF Cobol to pause program execution (sleep) for, let's
say, 5 minutes??? My workaround is to call the AIX command "sleep 300".
I need a routine in Cobol itself so I may vary the time to pause in some
programs.

Thanks in advance.



Not that I know of.

I use

call "system" using ws-sleep-call


Where ws-sleep-call is defined as

01 ws-mss-sleep-call.
03 pic x(6) value "sleep ".
03 ws-mss-sleep pic 9(15).999.
03 pic x value x"00".

Works for me.

--
Steve



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