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RE: IBMathics : was WrkActJob percentages are way off

WRKSYSSTS should add up if you count 1MB as 1024K and 1GB as 1024MB, the
binary 2 to the power 10;

Jeff Bull

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From: steven.donnellan@simonjersey.com
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Sent: 31 August 2001 11:40
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IBM once drove ourselves and our accounts department nuts with a £12k
invoice that was just identified as 'hardware'.  We were fairly sure if we
had £12k's worth of hardware delivered, one of us would have tripped over
it, banged our head on it, or just noticed the big cardboard box with
'IBM' stencilled on the side of it.
The letters stopped coming from IBM, and started coming from the
collection agency...
Eventually, a lot of to-ing and fro-ing identified this 'hardware' as
being an RPG/400 licence.
Sirius Cybernetics Corporation style management or what?

As for infinite improbability, I have had Queries that take seconds to
produce the result when you press F5, but take days to run when you submit
them to batch.  That's a mystery I'm still trying to crack...

I also can't quite get WRKSYSSTS figures to match the amount of memory we
actually have installed, but I usually put that down to decimal places and
have a lie down.

Steven Donnellan
AS/400 Systems Manager
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
Simon Jersey Ltd

http://www.simonjersey.com




Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@ITM-group.co.uk>
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... could be; perhaps peril sensitive sunglasses or wrapping your head in
a
towel may help with the invoices, you won't be able to see them so perhaps
they will go away.

As for simple (not) adding-up problems, perhaps a nice, strong, hot cup of
fresh tea will cure it; I accept that a severe reprogramming with a
space-axe would be more satisfying.

I have been using 'fiddle-factors' for years on AS/400 numbers that do not
add up - here's another, add up the disk space in libraries, folders etc,
add the current unprotected storage, you can get quite close to the %used,
but it is always a couple of percent out.

Jeff  'Marvin'  Bull

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Does this mean I have to factor in a constant of '42' on my performance
reports, and the new motto of iSeries Nation is going to be 'Share and
enjoy' (or to IBM Marketting 'go stick your head in a pig'...)    :-)

Steven 'life, don't talk to me about life' Donnellan
AS/400 Systems Manager
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
Simon Jersey Ltd

http://www.simonjersey.com




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For those of you who are fans of The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy, you
should recall that particular branch of Math called 'Bistromathics'.  It
is
a branch of maths which kind of explains why restaurant bills never seem
to
add up, particularly when a group needs to pay for 'only what they've
had'.
The more you break down the bill, the less accurate is the total.

I have suspected for some time that there is a similar but new branch of
Math emerging from IBM, I shall call it 'IBMathics'.  Topically, it is
evident on the WRKACTJOB and WRKSYSACT displays, but also in the
Performance
Tools reports, and curiously it has infected IBM invoices.

Does anyone have any other evidence of IBMathics for the list to review ?

Jeff Bull  :-)

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WRKACTJOB doesn't show System Tasks.  Have a look at WRKSYSACT and see
what System Tasks are running (including the almost legendary CFINT##
task...)

Steven Donnellan
AS/400 Systems Manager
IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
Simon Jersey Ltd

http://www.simonjersey.com




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Sometimes when we WrkActJob the CPU utilization in the list
does not come anywhere near what is being reported at the
top of the display. Why is that?
V4R5 with current ptfs.
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