Urs Jetter wrote in message <9ejc51$rdq$03$1@news.t-online.com>... >Hi, > >I have a two jobs that start at the same time but use the same resource. >After job1 connects to the resource, job2 runs into an error-condition. >That's fine, I handle this error and let job2 wait for two minutes. Then >job2 tries again. > >The waiting is done by checking the clock until it's time to run again.... >So SAS takes much cpu only for waiting. > >Does anybody know a V6 or V8 SAS/base Function or a statement that waits but >is not consuming so much cpu. The statement must work on aix. > Um, any reason not to make them one job? Either by combining the two files into one file, or kicking off a third job that consists simply of %INCLUDEs of the other two?