Re: QQRYTIMLMT?

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Ron

I once messed with this value to stop pesky developers from running queries 
interactively ;)

My advice would be not to set it system wise; this would affect every query 
on the system including OPNQRYF queries in my original experimentation and 
probably SQL these days. It's been a while so you may want to see if this 
is still true but obviously tread warily as it could have quite an impact.

What I used it for was to limit access to interactive query and simply 
prevented queries running. If the query optimizer determined that the query 
would take longer than the time limit it issued a message offering the 
opportunity to cancel or continue. This was obviously not ideal in batch 
jobs :) I overrode the message with a message reply to cancel the 
operation. Couldn't be monitored as I recall but things may have changed 
and I am no message guru anyway.

I guess how you set this value depends on what you want to achieve so I 
don't think I can offer you any other advice.

Regards
Evan Harris

At 02:56 a.m. 3/05/2005, you wrote:
> Does anybody have a System Value set other than *NOMAX?  If so, what did
> you set it to?
>
> What is the general consensus on setting this value, job-wise, and-or
> system-wise?
>
> Ron Adams