RE: Submitting Jobs to QBATCH

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Justin Houchin
>
>             I need some help. We have are QBATCH subsystem setup to only
> run one job at a time. This is so that when running sales reports, only
> one will run at a time (Some of the reports update files that other
> reports will read, so that is why). By the way I didn't write these
> report programs:-). Well this is the problem..When a report is in QBATCH
> running, I have to wait for it to finish before my submitted job will
> run. The reports take about 30 min. This is to long for me to wait. My
> boss told me to change my submitted job to the QINTER subsystem to run.
> I don't think this is a good idea, but I don't really know. Any ideas?

Justin, this is a fairly standard problem - may shops require a
single-threaded job queue in order to run sequential batch jobs, and often
they use QBATCH for this purpose.  But you can set up multiple job queues
for the QBATCH subsystem.  One can be set to allow multiple jobs to run
simultaneously, while the other is set for single-threaded access.  This
way, more than one can run in QBATCH, while still having a queue that is
single threaded.

The downside is that your jobs will consume some of the resources in the
QBATCH subsystem, slowing down the other jobs.  But this is preferable to
running in QINTER, where the default job characteristics (such as TIMESLICE)
are generally set for interactive jobs, not batch jobs.

Joe