Some Batch jobs take a long time to run. If you have a batch job with the words “trial balance” in the title then its going to take hours… That is a “hashtag internet fact” 😉 A common technique to try to give these jobs a little boost is the jobs outer control program to

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Any program can easily find out the mode it is running in by calling an IBM supplied *API – which will return the status of the job we are running. Basically, we just have to teach our program to shout “Hey Dude – am I running in batch or what?” and then the dark lord

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