What's the fastest way to submit jobs from RPG?

Hi folks,

Program A reads a file and for each record submits about 20 jobs to batch to
update totals further up the hierarchy of records in the file.  The batch
jobs are going to a dedicated jobq/subsystem which can have up to 25 active
jobs.  At the moment no more than 3 or 4 jobs are active at a time because
Program A is not submitting them fast enough.  We have tried submitting the
jobs directly from the RPG program using QCMDEXC and by calling a CLP to
submit them (contrary to (my) expectations, calling the CL was faster).  At
the speeds we are seeing at the moment it would take 83 days of continuous
processing to complete the job (we are talking about millions of records).
Is there a way to speed up submission of the batch jobs from program A?

TIA

Martin


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