Re: Quantify processing wasted by lots of little jobs

FWiW:
Although the "end-the-program" request is good practice to enable a controlled shutdown of the NEP, that does not help with the controlled ENDJOB or ENDSBS requests. That also does not assist when it is a non-keyed single-queue implementation, and the only queue has many entries in wait; queued up before the end request. Thus the NEP could still timeout and check the in-controlled-end status flag in a coded loop; where the timeout is under half of the default controlled end wait-time -- the /default/ according to the system management rules, not necessarily the default on the ENDxxx commands themselves. If the NEP processes large/long requests, and the importance of allowing completion of a request should dictate a delay to the start of controlled end requests, a scripted/custom ENDSYS can send the "end-the-program" and await feedback from that request, before issuing the actual ENDxxx.

Regards, Chuck