Re: How to see what is causing delay issue for backups

Often you will have a 'single string' job queue that is causing this. For
example
DSPSBSD QBATCH
6. Job queue entries
Seq Job Max ---------Max by Priority----------
Nbr Queue Library Active 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 QBATCH QGPL 7 * * * * * * * * *
...
Most times you can ignore "Max by Priority", especially if they are all *.
But if your "Max Active" for QBATCH is 1 and some other job is running
from that job queue then no other job can start from that job queue until
the first job completes.

A DSPLOG for a significant time portion before that backup is supposed to
run will show you jobs starting and stopping. Then you have to manually
figure out which ones started from that job queue and are tying things up.

WRKJOBQ will only show you jobs that are queued but not running yet. It
will not show you jobs that started from that job queue and are currently
active. That is more labor intensive. You look at the active jobs in the
QBATCH subsystem, look at it's joblog, and see if you see:
Message ID . . . . . . : CPI1125
Job ... submitted to job queue QBATCH...
Or if it went to some other job queue.

Rob Berendt