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[kanitha-mvs]

hi,
I am submitting a jcl from the rexx program.
only after the completion of the submitted jcl, the remaining rexx code should be executed.
Are there any means to make the rexx program wait till the completion of the submitted jcl?

[semigeezer]

This is generally bad program design. Is there a reason that you can not just call the program from Rexx instead of through a batch job?

[Phantom]

kanitha,

You can do that. but you will be eating away the CPU unnecessarily. check for other alternatives as semigeezer suggested.

Thanks,
Phantom

[semigeezer]

It isn't a CPU issue, since you can use syscalls sleep but an initiator issue and a resource contention issue. You have no gaurentee that your job will even run when you submit it. It could run an hour later, or never run if the initiators are in use or your job is waiting on a data set. And there is the issue of error checking. How do you check for, and recover from errors in the batch job execution? Parse listings? Get SDSF output? Checking for errors, contention, etc is very easy to do right in the Rexx exec.

[kanitha-mvs]

Hi,
Thanks for your replies.
What I wanted to know is "Is there any way to find the completion of the jcl in REXX". The job wont take much time. Just to make the code wait for few seconds.

[semigeezer]

Even more reason to just allocate the ddnames and call the program from Rexx. Then you just check the rc variable