How to “sleep” in mainframe COBOL?

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Question

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?

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Solution

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

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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.

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