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

["Dare @ Work" <oludare@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dunfie,

What "job table", please enlighten me.

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Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 11:31 AM
Subject: Re: RE: What's the fastest way to submit jobs from RPG?


> >
> David is right.....if you really choose to go this route, make sure
> you do not create job logs or your system will really bog down as the
> number of jobs increases. You also may need to compress your job table
> along the way or your performance will disappear on your system (we
> learned the hard way during Y2k scanning in batch).
>
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> > Are you sure you want to go this route?  If you submit 20 jobs for
> one each
> > of millions of records, you'll end up with many millions of jobs,
> which
> > would put a huge overhead on your system.
> >
> > Dave
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Saunders, Martin P [mailto:martin.saunders@cgey.com]
> > Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 7:40 AM
> > To: 'rpg400-l@midrange.com'
> > Subject: 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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