Creating a pause in REXX

[Sharon Hubbell , IT]

Hello I am a first time write-in!

My question:
I am creating a REXX that will eject tapes from our ATL
I want the job to show what tapes have been ejected to the person who runs
the job (as a way to double check).
When I run this REXX the information goes by too quick for anyone to read
it. Is there a way to slow this down or even momentarily pause without any
operator intervention?

Thanks for your help!,
Sharon Hubbell

[Duane]

I have a SLEEP program (written in assembler) that I was given by someone
on the net. The program is available for FTP from
OHSTMVSA.UTS.OHIO-STATE.EDU.
Logon as ANONYMOU pw GUEST
CD TS0007
GET 'TS0007.FTP.SLEEP'

Duane
list owner of TSO-REXX

[Mark Zelden]

"Sharon Hubbell , IT" wrote:
> When I run this REXX the information goes by too quick for anyone to read
> it. Is there a way to slow this down or even momentarily pause without any
> operator intervention?
>

Is this rexx being invoked from TSO/ISPF? If so, you can use the TSOB
command from my web site to put the output in a scrollable ISPF browse
data set - example: TSO TSOB your_rexx. You can also use the same
technique from TSOB and add that right into your rexx program. I put
TSOB as a command in my command table, so I just use "TSOB command".
Note that since this exec uses OUTTRAP, it can't trap TPUTs.

Regards,
Mark
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[Bill]

In article <69D22D320BA4D211BA5300805F9F424901C41733@EXCHANGE02_PH>,

TSO REXX Discussion List <TSO-...@VM.MARIST.EDU> wrote:
> Hello I am a first time write-in!
>
> My question:

> Is there a way to slow this down or even momentarily pause
without any
> operator intervention?
>

> Thanks for your help!,
> Sharon Hubbell
>

If you have Unix System Services available to the userid for the job,
you can use
Address syscall 'sleep 'secs
where secs is number of second to delay.
Bill

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[Matthew Taloni]

You could try something simple like this....

LOG = TIME('E')
DO UNTIL TIME('E') > 5
LOG = TIME('E')
END

It will just stay in the loop for 5 seconds and then exit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Zelden [mailto:mze...@FLASH.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 1:49 AM
To: TSO-...@VM.MARIST.EDU
Subject: Re: Creating a pause in REXX

"Sharon Hubbell , IT" wrote:
> When I run this REXX the information goes by too quick for anyone to read

> it. Is there a way to slow this down or even momentarily pause without any
> operator intervention?
>