You could use an intermediate job to schedule the next day's IMAILSTR job.
For example,

STREAM IMASTART;AT=......

and then IMASTART would just launch IMAILSTR when it starts. Then your PAUSE
wouldn't see your IMAILSTR until it is actually up and running.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Stigers" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 1:05 AM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] pausing for a job


> To answer Jeff's question, we are pausing by jobname,
> !PAUSE 133;JOB="IMAILSTR,JOBS.account"
> This job is scheduled by another job that runs once an evening, so by end
> of
> day, this scheduled instance is already scheduled, and causes this pause
> to
> exceed the time specified (CIWARN 9032).
>
> So, taking Dave Powell's advice, I will try:
> SETVAR _JOBCNT JOBCNT('IMAILSTR,JOBS.account',_JOBLIST)
> WHILE SETVAR(_JOBCNT,_JOBCNT - 1) > 0
>   IF JINFO(WORD(_JOBLIST,,_JOBCNT),'JOBSTATE') = 'EXEC'
>      PAUSE JOB=![WORD(_JOBLIST,,_JOBCNT)]
>   ENDIF
> ENDWHILE
>
> If there's a better way, I'm all ears.
>
> Greg Stigers
>
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