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How can I keep a RPG program running in memory?

I coded a monitoring program in RPG that checks if the fax/400 is operational.

And now I want this program to check every 15 minutes.

Instead of placing a job every 15 minutes in the job scheduler (which would be ugly to manage), I made the program wait between checks using DLYJOB.

Now how can I make this program "place itself" in memory so it keeps running?

(I thought of using SBMJOB, but I can't figure in which job queue I could place it.)

Solution

  • A good job queue to use for an endlessly running job would be QSYSNOMAX. That allows unlimited numbers of jobs to be running.

    You could submit the job to that queue in your QSTRTUP program and it will simply remain running all the time.