RE: Ending job has priority 16!?!

["Cotes, Steven" <cotess@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Al,
the system will admit when it changes priority,
but only if you're checking with WRKSYSACT
or collecting performance data.
Otherwise you're right, WRKACTJOB has a
great "poker face"   ;-)

 -Steve Cotes
 -cotess@data-io.com

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> From:         Al Barsa, Jr.[SMTP:barsa2@ibm.net]
> Sent:         Friday, January 16, 1998 7:27 AM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      RE: Ending job has priority 16!?!
> 
> At 02:21 PM 1/15/98 -0600, you wrote:
> >I THINK (don't hold me to this) that the system does that internally
> to
> >expedite ending the job - especially if it's taking a while to kill
> it.
> >Depending on the LOG values set for thos job however, this could
> cause
> >it to spend a LONG time producing a massive joblog.  One way to
> prevent
> >this when killing a job with ENDJOB is to make sure you limit the #
> of
> >log entries produced with the LOGLMT parameter.  Maybe something
> >reasonable like a couple of hundred entries (if you want to try to
> see
> >what's happened if the job may be looping) or just LOGLMT(1) if you
> >don't care about the joblog.
> >
> >... Neil Palmer                                     AS/400~~~~~      
> 
> I agree with Neil, but I didn't think that the system admitted that it
> changed the priority.  I thought it just lied, and showed you the old
> priority.
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> 
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