Re: How to identify a runaway job

[Clay B Carley <cbc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Denis,

I'll start this by stating I'm still new to these systems, but I do try 
to help where I can.

Have you taken a look at the output of WRKSYSACT yet?  It may be painful 
to watch for a while if you turn on automatic refresh, but it looks like 
the output may give you what you are looking for.

Hope this helps,
Clay Carley
Sonic Telecom/ Sonic.net

Denis Robitaille wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> We are currently facing a major problem. There is, on one of our systems, 1 or more job that is consuming disk at an alarming rate (the % used goes up 1 percent every 5 minutes or so). We have thousands of jobs running and we can not easily pin point the guilty one.
>
> In the past, we got lucky some times (a badly defined SQL that we were able to spot), and unlucky some others (IPL when the % got to high).
>
> Does anyone can give me hints on how to spot, on the fly, the disk consumption of a job, be that for Database IO or temporary memory space.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
>
> Denis Robitaille
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