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mfhelp
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:32 pm
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How can we keep a step in loop which means executing a particular step repeatedly??
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expat

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:51 pm
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Why would you want to do this.

What is your requirement and maybe someone will know a much better and less wasteful way of doing whatever it is that you want to achieve.
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UmeySan

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:57 pm
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Hi !

I can't remember of such a silly requirement. But also, you can't keep a step of a Job in loop. He still ends, when the program or whatever you execute here is terminating.

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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:03 pm
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Hello,

You need to re-think how to implement your requirement (the requirement is not to loop in some step - that is your attempt to meet the requirement). If you post the actual requirement, someone may have a suggestion.

I suspect that you want to loop until some condition is met. This could be hours or worse case - never.

If several people implemented their process doing as you want to do, the mainframe would come to a complete halt because all of the initiators/partitions were "looping".
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