Re: Starting jobs to read from a data queue

boothm@earth.Goddard.edu wrote:
> 
> I have a job that runs 14 hours.  It needs to run in a shorter period of
> elapsed time.  Lo Raikov told me of a way using RRN and OVRDBF to split
> the file up and run programs against the overridden file segments (Very
> neat, Lo, thank you) but would it also be possible to use a feeder program
> to fill a data queue and then have 14 instances of a program running, each
> being fed from the data queue?
> 
> I got it all working except How do you start 14 instances of a program?
> Opening 14 Client Access sessions seems err... nonprofessional.

Why not write a short program that submits xxxx number of jobs to a
jobq that allows 14 jobs concurrently. The "front end" program would
just
break up the file and feed the jobq. This would work only
if you have the resources to do this. Any job that runs 14 hours "might"
need a little tuning up.... Data queues have some max entries that you
might hit with large numbers of records.
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