Re: Job log wrap?

I’ve seen the issue being described.

It’s a single job, and the job log wraps multiple times.
The job logs that are printed are small - a few hundred pages (for one specific job, there were dozens of them, each with 256 pages).
Then when the job ends, the final job log is thousands of pages long.

The JOBMSGQFL setting for this particular job was 64, so it made no sense to have job logs wrapping with 256 pages.

We opened a ticket with IBM on this, but the support person we got didn’t understand the problem and we gave up trying to explain it.


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On Feb 25, 2022, at 4:47 PM, Larry DrFranken Bolhuis <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I haven't messed with it in a while but I think when you have the job set to 4 00 *MSG then the output to the job log when printed is vastly shorter so you get many more messages per page. Hence a report that is many pages shorter.

- L

On 2/25/2022 12:10 PM, smith5646midrange@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

I'm confused by the part of your answer about second level text. My
understanding is when the joblog reaches QJOBMSGQMX value bytes, it wraps.
While second level text increases the amount of data in the buffer, both
would wrap at QJOBMSGQMX bytes...or is there a piece that I am missing?
For the other half of the answer about the page length, I can see where
there would be a lot more pages if there was an OVRPRTF FILE(*ALL) in the
job that caused some jobs to page break with really short pages and other
jobs to page break with really long pages (OVRFLW(10) vs OVRFLW(1000)).
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Subject: Re: Job log wrap?
The difference is about 18,810 I would say. :-)
Check the logging level for the job and the messages being logged. Some
messages fill the joblog with more schmoo than others so that would matter.
Also if the 19K page guys are printing second level text while the 190 page
critter is printing only first level message data, that makes a big
difference in page consumption.
AND don't forget that at least theoretically the page length could be
different as well. Maybe you have 190 reaaaaly long pages. :-)
AND finally note that even though the job description may specify attributes
that those can be overridden in the job with CHGJOB.
- DrFranken
On 2/25/2022 10:00 AM, Justin Taylor wrote:

I have several scheduled jobs (WRKJOBSCDE) that have job logs that
wrap at about 190 pages and generate a spooled file every time the log
wraps. I have other jobs that don't wrap until 19K pages. What's the
difference? I checked the job descriptions, but came up with nothing.

TIA

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