RE: Reducing Batch Job Run Time

The thing I would do would be to submit each of the 10 different
programs at one time.  If you have a single threaded job queue,
that won't help you, so you may want to create or modify a job
queue to allow more than one job to run at a time.

SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(MYLIB/MYPGM1)) JOBQ(MULTIJOB)
SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(MYLIB/MYPGM2)) JOBQ(MULTIJOB)
SBMJOB CMD(CALL PGM(MYLIB/MYPGM3)) JOBQ(MULTIJOB)
.
.
.

That would allow them to run all at once, and you may get an
exceptional increase in the total process time (1/10th the time
or 24 minutes) or next to no saving at all, depending on what
is taking the jobs so long to run (is it CPU time, DASD wait
time, etc...)


Regards,

Jim Langston
Programmer/Analyst
Cels Enterprises, Inc.

-----Original Message-----
From: rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com [mailto:rpg400-l-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Ray Nainy
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 12:37 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Reducing Batch Job Run Time


Hi all,

What are the best options available to reduce the batch job run time?
We have a daily batch job which runs about 4 hours, and which calls 10
different programs. All these programs are independent of each other and can
be called in any sequence. Looking for best options to reduce the batch job
run time.

thanks in advance.

Ray