On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:31:53 -0500, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:19:33 -0400, Mark Pace <[email protected]> wrote: > >>The timeouts are the exact reason I swtiched to downloading to an NFS server >>and then doing RECEIVE FROM NTS. An FTP or Download-Director download is >>much faster and reliable than RECEIVE ORDER. I had a couple of orders that >>had to be restarted after it had almost completed, wasting a vast amount of >>time. >> > >Are you aware of the WAIT keyword for RECEIVE ORDER? The default is >120 minutes, but I have been running with WAIT(300) since I first started >using RECEIVE ORDER after some orders timed out. I'm sure there were >more problems then than now. > Sorry, I didn't read your post carefully. WAIT won't help for that type of problem. FWIW, I've had very little problems with RECEIVE ORDER (especially in recent history) and I use it almost every day. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
