Re: Job numbers in threads

Well yes it is. It is obvious to me too now but for those who ask questions like 'does a thread create a new job number' it seems worth pointing out that the activity level needs to allow for all the active threads. For those who use Navigator it states Threads now rather than 'Activity Level' and the help text in WRKSYSSTS says so too. However in my experience very few folks understand. If you use automatic tuning you're OK as the system sets the value pretty well but for those who don't, it's good knowledge to have.

That's the view from my keyboard... :-)

- DrFranken
www.frankeni.com

On 5/10/2010 10:00 PM, Simon Coulter wrote:

On 11/05/2010, at 10:57 AM, DrFranken wrote:

You do need to allow for activity levels for the threads however. For
example we have one job that runs all in it's own subsystem and is the
only job in the memory pool. The job runs well over 400 threads so
there
must be a high enough activity level for that subsystem to allow
many of
the threads to run at once. In our case well over 100. Before threads
an activity level of 1 would have been good for that memory pool.
View
the number of threads for jobs in WRKACTJOB and press F11 until the
thread count is displayed.

Isn't that an implication of "thread" being short for multiple thread
of execution therefore to have multiple threads active at one time
would require an available activity level? Seems obvious to me but
perhaps worth pointing out for batch jobs.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.