Re: Tracking the average time jobs are waiting in the queue

Yes, job accounting is a great way to get this - but how many have it running? QHST job start and end messages are sometimes called job accounting on the cheap.

And that open list thing could be even better - ah, I see it came out with V6R1 - as usual with these things, it would be VERY helpful to include the VRM when an API is available when recommending its use. Not everyone is at the latest bleeding edge.

Vern

Graap, Kenneth wrote:

Doesn't Job Accounting Audit entries track when a job entered the system
and when it started running? If so, one could assume the difference in
time between Job Entry and Job Start is the amount of time on the Job
Queue...

?????


Kenneth
Kenneth E. Graap

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Subject: Re: Tracking the average time jobs are waiting in the queue

In a previous life (Elvis remembers) I did quite a bit or work with the
QHST data - DSPLOG on the 2 messages given in another post might be
enough, although the results are not in a record format.

I just tried a SBMJOB and did not see the CPC1236 in the log - ah, it
seems to be related to the job scheduler - it does not show up for
simple SBMJOB command usage. I do not recommend its use.

There are the CPF1124 and CPF1164 for start and end of jobs. The output
of DSPLOG does not show anywhere near the information that is in the
CPF1124, nor the CPF1164.