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feuGene
feuGene

Reputation: 4001

How to "sleep" in mainframe COBOL?

I think I'm using Enterprise COBOL for z/OS.

What's a technique to emulate the functionality of, for example, the standard C library's sleep() function?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 9892

Answers (3)

Scott
Scott

Reputation: 1

You can call the "sleep" command. Here's a basic example passing the number of seconds in a variable.

NOTE: sleep must be in lower case

WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
77 WS-SLEEPSECS    PIC S9(2) VALUE 30.

PROCEDURE DIVISION.
 < Miscellaneous Code >

CALL "sleep" USING WS-SLEEPSECS.

Upvotes: 0

cschneid
cschneid

Reputation: 10775

Probably the easiest method is to use the Language Environment callable service CEE3DLY or CEEDLYM.

Upvotes: 7

Modern Coding
Modern Coding

Reputation: 1

I don't know whether you have found your answer or not.

There is an IBM program that enables the machine to sleep ... or to wait : its name is ILBOWAT0.

Here is the link of a very good example on how you can code it : http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?t=2008&highlight=delay

In this example, WAIT-TIME is in seconds.

Upvotes: 0

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