Is there any reason why you can't just write a little program that does
the PRINTOPREPLY and set's a JCW that you can test in a WHILE loop at
the top of the job?

shawn

Jeanette and Ken Nutsford wrote:
>
> We wish to set up a job that needs to be streamed at a specific time each
> day but we do not want the job to start running any programs at that time.
> We need to be able to issue a command equivalent to the PRINTOPREPLY
> intrinsic. ie send a message to the console requesting a reply. When the
> reply is received the job needs to check the reply and decide whether it
> can continue or issue another 'PRINTOPREPLY' request.
>
> Has anyone done this? We cannot find any command that will do this. The
> INPUT command will only send a message and wait for a response from $stdin.
> We need an option to do the same to the console.
>
> Jeanette Nutsford
> Computometric Systems Ltd
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