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Periodic recreation of batch log file?

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The Question is:

 
I have a third party executable (IBM's MQSeries for VMS trigger monitor)
that I'm running in a batch job.  What I want is to periodically start a new
batch log file.
 
Once started, the executable normally does not terminate.  I've been
manually entering "delete/entry=job-entry", then "submit command-procedure".
 
I would like to make this auto-magic.  One possibility is to spawn/nowait
the executable and monitor the time in the parent process - at the proper
time, the parent submits itself and exits.  Another is separate batch jobs,
one with the executable, the ot
her does a delete/entry at the proper time and then submits a new job.
 
None of these is particularly pleasing and I'm hoping that you can point me
to an elegant alternative.
 
Thank you
 

The Answer is :

 
  Please contact the maintainer of the application environment, and
  determine if there is a way to exit (gracefully or otherwise) from
  the job, in order to restart it with a new log file.  Alternatively,
  if there is a way to operate the application with a local (and
  application-specific) log file.
 
  Without the assistance of the application, you will likely be left
  with any of a variety of ugly -- but effective -- approaches to
  restarting it and thus to recreating the log file...
 

  

     

     
answer written or last revised on ( 17-JAN-2000 )
     
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