Delay in Process Flow

If you add &WAIT=true to the end of your jobrun string then ProcessFlow will wait until the job finishes before moving forward.

Morning David:
Thank you in advance for your help.

RE: use of &WAIT=true with the webrun

Background:
pfuser = service account for process flow

I have an AGS call to create/update parameters for the batch job followed by the webrun if the create/update were successful. When the webrun command is executed, job is active in jobschd, it does wait but only one minute then it executes again and fails even though the job is still active in jobschd, triggering a failure step when in fact it has not failed--yet.
I am making an assumption that the subsequent executions after each minute that ProcessFlow is querying GEN.QUEUEDJOB-STATUS to validate that the job is indeed still running. Is this a true assumption? If so, why would it fail on subsequent tries? Do you know of any documentation that gives troubleshooting tips and tricks?

error message if submitted job runs longer than one minute:
Executing WebRun Activity WebRun3770.....
Posting to URL cgi-lawson/jobrun.exe?FUNC=run&USER=pfuser&JOB=0727110722&WAIT=true
Post content:
WebRun3770_errorCode = 1
WebRun3770_informationCode = 0
WebRun3770_returnMessage = Error connecting to /cgi-lawson/jobrun.exe?FUNC=run&USER=pfuser&JOB=0727110722&WAIT=true with user pfuser Query string
WebRun3770_outputData =
Error while executing WebRun activity
Error connecting to /cgi-lawson/jobrun.exe?FUNC=run&USER=pfuser&JOB=0727110722&WAIT=true with user pfuser Query string
WebRun3770_result = Error connecting to /cgi-lawson/jobrun.exe?FUNC=run&USER=pfuser&JOB=0727110722&WAIT=true with user pfuser Query string
Executing Stop Activity .....

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This actually looks like a security error. Is pfuser setup in laua? It has to be in order to run a batch job.

Are the jobs setup under the pfuser ID? You can run a job defined as user1 if you have security rights and the jobrun.exe has to be set to run the job as the user the job is defined for.

Is this Windows?
Are you running this from the Designer?=

Morning all:
we are Unix.
yes the original jobs are owned and submitted by pfuser. 
yes pfuser is setup in laua.

Are you seeing this behavior from the designer or on the server?=

I am within the ProcessFlow designer.

I added a javascript function in pflow.js to pause for a number of milliiseconds (1000 milliiseconds = 1 seconds) by using date variables. I used this a lot specially to monitor for jobs and also for checking multiple interface files used by my ScanFileClient. An example would be processing two files for AP. The ScanFileClient will checked if the second file is already present. If the file is not there yet, then it will pause for 5 minutes. It will also count how many times the flow has loop thru the pause function and if the count exceeded the loop limit (like 3 times), then it will send email message that the file did not reach the system.

It just a simple script and let me know if want me to post it here.

Hi Sam,
We do have older process flows that use AGS to update/add job, jqsubmit to submit it, and query QUEUEDJOB with sixty second pause loops.  When I saw David's webrun solution and wanted to give it a try so we wouldn't have to do it the old way if at all possible.

Thanks for the suggestion.

I experienced similar behavior (on Windows) for the webrun node when running from the designer.
However, the flow worked just fine once deployed and run on the server.

Thanks John it did as expected when deployed to the server.  I then took it a step further and purposely had the job go into needs recovery and the webrun node finished with the Found Success string message.  I am guessing I will always need to query QUEUEDJOB after the webrun node to confirm it was actually successful or failed so I will continue down that path unless I hear otherwise.

Love LawsonGuru for all the help and support!  Thank you all.

That is a great solution. I have flows where I do a simple could in a branch and it just loops through a VAR+1 until it reaches a set number and then proceeds with the flow. It works when I can't query something and just need an abitratry pause. This solution would probably be much cleaner and use less system resources.

Thanks