Re: Microfocus Cobol "SLEEP" routine

"C C" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks. That's what I'm doing right now. I just want to avoid having to
call "system". In AIX, a new-line is output by the system thus online
sessions experience a shift on their screen. This behavior still occurs
even if my call "system" script re-directs output to /dev/null.


"Steve Rainbird" <news.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"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.

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Steve







Have you tried call "SYSTEM" there is a difference but I can't remember
offhand what it is.

Or maybe even CBL_EXEC_RUN_UNIT although I have never used this.

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Steve



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