Re: WRKSBMJOB, WRKUSRJOB slug-li

[D.BALE@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Al, in a word, No!  (a first!)

We have only three users (programmers) on this development box and I'm the
only one using more than one session.  If anything, this box is way
underutilized; CPU rarely exceeds 20% and we're only using 60% of the DASD.
Nobody sits on the F5 key for any of the various WRK* commands, although I
learned that my colleague uses WRKACTJOB to check out his batch jobs! (He says
he doesn't use if very often.)  And I _did_ notice that WRKACTJOB was very
fast compared to WRKSBMJOB & WRKUSRJOB - what's up with that?!?!?  He probably
picked up the habit seeing that WRKSBMJOB & WRKUSRJOB were so slow to begin
with.

Dan Bale
IT - AS/400
Handleman Company
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952


------------------ Original Message ------------------
When you use WRK* charts of information, do you visit one time with a job
session, then go do some other work & then return later, or do you sit on the
WRK* screens with occasional F5?  Do you have multiple users doing this?

I have multiple power users whom I have told about WRKUSRJOB & we heavily use
WRKSPLF & WRKOUTQ & this & that, many of which have been put on end user
menus so they can rapidly see their reports, their messages, their JOBQ.  But
these IBM programs can be a bit of a drain on the system if used heavily.

If a person is sitting at WRK whatever with heavy use of F5, that can cause
system to be sluggish.

Sometimes a sluggish system is symptomatic of some other problem ... in other
words it is not a particular program or command that is sluggish but the
entire computer due to someone running an inefficient query on-line instead
of in batch, or some program design problem.

There is also the issue of a company aquiring a new box in which the sizing
questionnairre was not used correctly, so now they have the wrong model,
inadequate processor, insufficient memory, etc.

Al Macintyre  ©¿©
MIS Manager Green Screen Programmer & Computer Janitor of BPCS 405 CD Rel-02
running on AS/400 V4R3 http://www.cen-elec.com Central Industries of
Indiana--->Quality manufacturer of wire harnesses and electrical
sub-assemblies
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