Re: Multiple end times for jobs in QHST

I have my personal profile setup to message me when jobs end, including printouts. This is because I send lots of stuff to printers other than where I am located, don't want to overload them, and tend to load the JOBQ with scores of tasks every evening, in which I like to know how long some stuff takes. I find this to be useful info in a myriad of circumstances.

One of my duties is to use Operations Navigator to transfer various reports to Excel, or just e-mail text format, to managers who either are not connected to our AS/400, or are connected but don't care to learn how to access reports. Because I do 95% of the end fiscal stuff, and they can ask me to reprint some report from a year ago, there is in the neighborhood of 5,000 reports in my name, so it takes Ops Nav a while to sort them so I can access the latest needed. This is happening on the company laptop, while I am busy with other work at a dumb terminal. When Ops Nav gets done sorting, which could be anywhere from 5 minutes to 50 minutes, I get a message on DSPMSG that it has done its thing. This message can be one line, or the same identical line up to 10 times. This does not bother me, it is just a curiosity.

Al Macintyre

I'm analyzing elapsed times for jobs, using the data in the several
QHST* files on a system. I copy the first record for the CPF1124 &
CPF1164 messages into one file, and the third record for the CPF1164
message into another file. I take the first 8 bytes and convert to a
timestamp - that value is the join ID for the rows for a given
message, but it is the MI TOD for the time the message was sent, so
it seems it is usable for start and end time for the job.

What I see is that some jobs, mostly server jobs, have multiple end
times for the same start time, same job. Here is an example of counts
for grouping by job name, job number, and start time.

PCDMAA 863696 2008-03-03-11.58.24.361112 7
QTCPIP 743863 2008-03-02-10.23.47.283288 17
QSQSRVR 458037 2008-02-28-18.38.12.996880 2

The first job is an interactive job - the others are server things.

So what's up? Fortunately, this behavior does not affect the stuff
I'm analyzing, just curious.

Thanks
Vern

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