Simonsen, Larry wrote:
>
> I seem to remember a command which would allow one job to wait for
> another job to complete.  I thought that it was the pause command but, I
> cannot find the syntax for this.
> can some one point me into the right cave for this?

I'm not aware of a single MPE command that will do this, but you might
find the following helpful.

IF JSCOUNT("JOBNAME,GROUP.ACCOUNT&EXEC") > 0 THEN
   PAUSE 300

will check if there is at least one copy of that job executing and pause
for 300 seconds if so.  Put this in a WHILE loop and you can wait until
the job finishes.  You can also use &SCHED, &WAIT etc as well as &EXEC.

If you want to make one job or session control the execution of another
job, the MPEX command PAUSEJOB will, I believe (haven't used it) let you
do that.

I hope this is of some help,

Chris Dunlop.
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Chris Dunlop - Management Information Systems
University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ
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