1. A method of operating an AS/400 computer system, comprising the steps of: applying each of a plurality of asynchronous thread tasks from an application as an input to each of a plurality of thread related batch jobs; operating each such thread related batch job to perform the thread task applied thereto and produce return data associated with each said thread task; applying the return data from each such thread related batch job to a single, common queue; and causing the application to wait on the common queue to sequentially retrieve the return data from each of said thread tasks therefrom.