RE: Batch jobs performance problems

I was told three months ago by SSA R&D that they DO NOT support any problems
that occur on a system running BPCS with multiple batch job queues.  It was
regarding 6.0.04.  I suppose you can take this for what it is worth.

Regards.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: uucp@Uucp1.mcs.net [mailto:uucp@Uucp1.mcs.net]On Behalf Of Rindi
> Wheeler
> Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 1999 1:37 PM
> To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re:Batch jobs performance problems
>
>
> It's always been kind of 'common knowledge' that BPCS batch jobs
> should run single threaded, but it's probably worth a call to the
> SSA Helpline to get their take on the question. Perhaps that has
> changed over the years.  The issue in the past was that it always
> caused record locking problems.
>
> >>> "Larry Fry" <lfry@tokheim.com> 04/06 8:32 AM >>>
> A follow-up question to the "Batch jobs performance problems.
>
> Is it documented anywhere that BPCS batch jobs should (or must) be run
> single-thread, or is it "common knowledge/common sense with
> BPCS"?  We are a new
> BPCS install and did not have the best guidance during the
> installation.  We do
> not this and as far as I am aware the problems we have had that
> may be related
> to this type of environment have are all been corrected by various BMRs.
>
> On our old system, the operating system took care of file and
> reocrd locking by
> specifications wihtin each batch job.  We could also make one or
> more files
> unavailable to the on-line (interactive) users.  This would allow
> us to run
> batch jobs in a controlled environment without impacting users
> more than was
> necessary.  Not so with AS/400 & BPCS.
>
> I have not been able to find anything in the limited
> documentation we have that
> indicates this should (or must) be done.
>
> Any advice would be helpful.
>
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