Re: parsing a numeric field (timings)

M
Hello James,

Your code sends an inquiry message.  You will see three messages during 
the run but if you look at them from QCMD (or the joblog) you'll see six 
messages -- an inquiry message results in the sender copy being sent to 
the same queue.  The order is Sender Copy, Inquiry, Sender Copy, Inquiry, 
Sender Copy, Inquiry, etc.

Are you sure you are not looking at the Inquiry for MIDLTIME, the Sender 
Copy for STOPTIME, and the Inquiry for STOPTIME?

Without wishing to enter yet another pissing contest I ran your code 
unmodified on my 170-2291 and the entire program finshed in less than a 
second thus STARTTIME, MIDDLETIME, and STOPTIME were identical.

I increased the loop value (and the size of COUNT -- oops!) and ran each 
loop 100,000 times resulting in 0 seconds elapsed for the first loop and 1 
second elapsed for the second loop on the first run and 0 seconds elapsed 
for both loops on each subsequent run.

I ran it again for 1,000,000 iterations and got 1 second elapsed for the 
first loop and 3 seconds elapsed for the second loop.  These numbers were 
consistent across multiple runs.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.

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