Re: JOBPTY

What I find somewhat amazing, or alarming, is that these types of problems
can't help but be issues at many, if not all other sites because of the JBA
Environment forced upon the machine.  There ought to be a clear concise
answer about this from JBA, available to all customers, without charge or
requiring an inordinate amount of effort getting it.

During a recent initial meeting of JBA Midwest Users, one of the highest
priority requests of, and promised by JBA to be listened to, was that
concerning a customer website.  It was requested that JBA populate an FAQ
(Frequently Asked Questions) database.  I hope these types of questions and
answers to them will be available this way.

In the meantime, please "publish" the answer so others can benefit from it.
: )

Randall I. Smith
OMRON Electronics, Inc.
randy_smith@omron.com




I sent the email below to our JBA account representative.  Has anyone had
trouble with this very same problem, and if so, what did you do about it?

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This is your reminder to forward this question on to others in an attempt
to resolve it...

I have noticed that various jobs within the JBA System/21 product are being
submitted with different job priorities.  We have experienced jobs that are
never run.. or are run much later in the day because the job queue is
generally pretty full.  If the job you are submitting is submitted at
JOBPTY(5), other jobs may preempt the run of your job because the job queue
is constantly reshuffled depending on job priority.

For example, I submit program 21/AIS.  This job is submitted at JOBPTY(3)
even though the job in the job queue is pointing to job description
IPGAMP4/IPGAMP which has a JOBPTY(5).  My user profile points to
QGPL/QDFTJOBD which is set to JOBPTY(6).

1.  I'm confused about how job priorities are assigned, please explain.
2.  There doesn't seem to be a way to control these priorities to ensure
that all jobs are submitted with the same JOBPTY.

Thanks for your help!
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Jim Sehi
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Hach Company
5600 Lindbergh Drive
Loveland, Colorado  80538

Email:  jsehi@hach.com
Phone:  970-663-1377  x2538
Fax: 970-669-2932
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