--- James English <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Obviously, the number of pause seconds I'm specifying is not
> negative. Does anyone know of another reason why this would happen?
> Could this error occur if the system is loaded down with running
> other jobs?

you didn't mention what release of the os you're on.  the best solution
is (as paul suggested) to do a pause with ';job='.  it's clean and
elegant.

if you're on an older release of mpe, you might want to consider this
logic:

!  SETVAR NO_SUCH_JOB 1619
!  STREAM MYJOB.JCL.ACCT
!  PAUSE 30
!  SETVAR HPCIERR 0
!  SETVAR JOB_COMPLETE FALSE
!  WHILE NOT JOB_COMPLETE DO
!    CONTINUE
!    TELL !HPLASTJOB
!    IF HPCIERR = !NO_SUCH_JOB THEN
!      SETVAR JOB_COMPLETE TRUE
!    ELSE
!      SETVAR HPCIERR 0
!      PAUSE 30
!    ENDIF
!  ENDWHILE

we used this logic during y2k-time to update 500 or so stores to 5.5.
i feel pretty confident that it'll work :-)        - d

Donna Garverick, HP-CSA   Sr. System Programmer
dgarverick -at- longs -dot- com
925-210-6631              Longs Drug Stores

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Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
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