Is there a wait or sleep function like SAS "sleep"?

[Merlin Marshall]

Hi all,

In SAS there is a sleep function, where you can suspend job execution for a
specified period of time, or based on a calculation of sleep time.  An
example is

data payroll;
   time_slept=sleep(20,1);
   ...more SAS statements...
run;
where SAS delays the execution of this data step for 20 seconds.

Is there something like this in SPSS?  I've tried searching on "sleep" and
"wait", but am not finding anything much except some Python coding involving
wait.

One of my colleagues wants to delay processing SPSS syntax in a remote
submit.  I am not sure if he wants to just hold off on running jobs until
the middle of the night, or if he wants to make sure some other job runs
first before the second bit tries to execute.

Thank you,
Merlin Marshall
Center for Human Resource Research
The Ohio State University
Columbus Ohio

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[Jon K Peck]

There is no built-in sleep function, but it is trivial to do this with Python:
begin program.
import time
time.sleep(20)
end program.

The sleep time could be parameterized if needed.

Another alternative would be use the OS job scheduler to start an SPSS job at a scheduled time (or use C&DS if they have that installed).


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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From:        Merlin Marshall <[hidden email]>
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Date:        12/19/2013 07:56 AM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] Is there a wait or sleep function like SAS "sleep"?
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Hi all,

In SAS there is a sleep function, where you can suspend job execution for a
specified period of time, or based on a calculation of sleep time.  An
example is

data payroll;
  time_slept=sleep(20,1);
  ...more SAS statements...
run;
where SAS delays the execution of this data step for 20 seconds.

Is there something like this in SPSS?  I've tried searching on "sleep" and
"wait", but am not finding anything much except some Python coding involving
wait.

One of my colleagues wants to delay processing SPSS syntax in a remote
submit.  I am not sure if he wants to just hold off on running jobs until
the middle of the night, or if he wants to make sure some other job runs
first before the second bit tries to execute.

Thank you,
Merlin Marshall
Center for Human Resource Research
The Ohio State University
Columbus Ohio

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[Bruce Weaver]

Has your colleague looked at the Production Jobs utility?

http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/spssstat/v20r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.spss.statistics.help%2Fidh_prod.htm

Merlin Marshall wrote

Hi all,

In SAS there is a sleep function, where you can suspend job execution for a
specified period of time, or based on a calculation of sleep time.  An
example is

data payroll;
   time_slept=sleep(20,1);
   ...more SAS statements...
run;
where SAS delays the execution of this data step for 20 seconds.

Is there something like this in SPSS?  I've tried searching on "sleep" and
"wait", but am not finding anything much except some Python coding involving
wait.

One of my colleagues wants to delay processing SPSS syntax in a remote
submit.  I am not sure if he wants to just hold off on running jobs until
the middle of the night, or if he wants to make sure some other job runs
first before the second bit tries to execute.

Thank you,
Merlin Marshall
Center for Human Resource Research
The Ohio State University
Columbus Ohio

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[Merlin Marshall]

Hi Jon,

I will pass this along, thank you.

Merlin

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Jon K Peck <[hidden email]> wrote:

There is no built-in sleep function, but it is trivial to do this with Python:
begin program.
import time
time.sleep(20)
end program.

The sleep time could be parameterized if needed.

Another alternative would be use the OS job scheduler to start an SPSS job at a scheduled time (or use C&DS if they have that installed).


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
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From:        Merlin Marshall <[hidden email]>
To:        [hidden email],
Date:        12/19/2013 07:56 AM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] Is there a wait or sleep function like SAS "sleep"?
Sent by:        "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <[hidden email]>

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Hi all,

In SAS there is a sleep function, where you can suspend job execution for a
specified period of time, or based on a calculation of sleep time.  An
example is

data payroll;
  time_slept=sleep(20,1);
  ...more SAS statements...
run;
where SAS delays the execution of this data step for 20 seconds.

Is there something like this in SPSS?  I've tried searching on "sleep" and
"wait", but am not finding anything much except some Python coding involving
wait.

One of my colleagues wants to delay processing SPSS syntax in a remote
submit.  I am not sure if he wants to just hold off on running jobs until
the middle of the night, or if he wants to make sure some other job runs
first before the second bit tries to execute.

Thank you,
Merlin Marshall
Center for Human Resource Research
The Ohio State University
Columbus Ohio

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[Merlin Marshall]

Hi Bruce,

I will pass along the link.

Thank you,

Merlin

On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 07:07:28 -0800, Bruce Weaver <[hidden email]>
wrote:

>Has your colleague looked at the Production Jobs utility?
>
>http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/spssstat/v20r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.spss.statistics.help%2Fidh_prod.htm
>
>
>
>Merlin Marshall wrote
>> Hi all,
>>
>> In SAS there is a sleep function, where you can suspend job execution for
>> a
>> specified period of time, or based on a calculation of sleep time.  An
>> example is
>>
>> data payroll;
>>    time_slept=sleep(20,1);
>>    ...more SAS statements...
>> run;
>> where SAS delays the execution of this data step for 20 seconds.
>>
>> Is there something like this in SPSS?  I've tried searching on "sleep" and
>> "wait", but am not finding anything much except some Python coding
>> involving
>> wait.
>>
>> One of my colleagues wants to delay processing SPSS syntax in a remote
>> submit.  I am not sure if he wants to just hold off on running jobs until
>> the middle of the night, or if he wants to make sure some other job runs
>> first before the second bit tries to execute.
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Merlin Marshall
>> Center for Human Resource Research
>> The Ohio State University
>> Columbus Ohio
>>
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