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Hi Folks,

actually I have two questions.

1) In the Easytrieve pgm, Can I tell the pgm to "sleep" for a while and then wake up again to resume the process ?

2) If I have two Easytrieve pgm batch job run concurrently to delete separate records in the same VSAM KSDS,
Can I code something in the pgm to avoid the VSAM file open error 168 ? I prefer not to use disp=old for workaround

No, Easytrieve Plus can't go to sleep. It is not usually a good idea for batch jobs to do so. Why would you want to do that?

And No. Or you can, but results will be unpredictable unless you have a mechanism to do what Robert suggested.

I think if each user writes to a dataset. then you concatenate the datasets into one Step, you'll only need one Step at a time to do the updates/

Hello,

In the Easytrieve pgm, Can I tell the pgm to "sleep" for a while and then wake up

NO.

This should be handled by the schedule or by using Console Automation. There is no good reason for you to tie-up system resources like this.