On 12 Sep 2006 05:54:23 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graeme Gibson) wrote: >Will the job always be submitted on the same day it's supposed to >run? Will it run on the machine it's submitted on? However >submitted, how confident are you that the job will *always* start >within the day it "belongs" to? What about situations where >production is delayed into the next day? Or run at a DR site? Or >run at a DR site in another time-zone? Or re-run in the next >day? Or what happens when you want to run several day's production >in the one 24 hour period? How important is it if the wrong decision >gets made some of the times this job runs? And, more esoterically, >what are the boundaries of your production "day"? Is it a 24 hour >day that starts at 0000? Or at 0800? Or something else?
All of the above fit in quite nicely to the concept of having a program return a return code. That's the nature of programs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
