Re: Suspending batch jobs?

[John Hall <jhall@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Goodbar, Loyd (AFS-Water Valley) wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to "suspend" a batch job, in the same manner that an
> interactive job can be suspended with the DSCJOB command? Some of our
> purges run overnight in batch, and rather than end them or let them run
> throughout the day, we'd like to suspend the job until the next evening.
> Any ideas or is it just impossible?
> 
> Thanks,
> Loyd Goodbar

Loyd consider that maybe you shouldn't suspend the batch job.  Instead
set up a separate subsystem to run these jobs in.  You can then make
that subsystem the lowests priority on the system and restrict the
amount of memory it can use so that the jobs do not impact your daily
operations.  I am not an expert on work management but I believe you can
limit the impact without too much trouble.  If you suspend the job it
may retain locks on resources which may affect other processing.

John Hall
Home Sales Co.
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