Re: Interactive vs. Batch

What problem are you trying to solve?
If the situation is that you want them to run at a higher priority than
other batch jobs then you need to look at :
- Job run priorities
- Job log entries to find Routing data
- Subsystem descriptions to match up the routing data with the "Class"
- The class of service
To find my FTP jobs I look for the QTFTP* jobs by doing a WRKSBSJOB
QSYSWRK. I find one of them and do a 5 to display the job and then a 3.
Display job run attributes, if active. On my ftp jobs I see that they are
running at a priority of 25. This is inbetween interactive and batch.
They have a time slice of 2000ms. Looking at their joblog I see:
RTGDTA(FTPSERVE). They run in QSYSWRK. So, if I DSPSBSD QSYSWRK, 7.
Routing entries,
Seq Nbr Program Library Compare Value
2501 QTMFSRVR QTCP 'FTPSERVE'

Routing entry sequence number . . . . . . . : 2501
Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QTMFSRVR
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QTCP
Class . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QTMFTPS
Library . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QTCP
Maximum active routing steps . . . . . . . : *NOMAX
Pool identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 1
Compare value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 'FTPSERVE'
Compare start position . . . . . . . . . . : 1
Thread resources affinity:
Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : *SYSVAL
Level . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . :
Resources affinity group . . . . . . . . . : *NO

Then, I do a WRKCLS QTCP/QTMFTPS and, lo, what do I see?
Run priority . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : 25
Time slice in milliseconds . . . . . . . . . . . : 2000

That's an intro to Work Management in a nutshell.


Trust me, you do NOT want to force them to "interactive". There's no
benefit and it only runs up the cost of the interactive feature.

Rob Berendt