Not odd at all. We have COBOL jobs that do that. We have 1 particular job that walks an IDMS database and formats the records for pushing out to MQSeries. When they run this thing, I can almost see the lights dim. The COBOL takes 50% of the machine and MQ takes the other 50%. 14 hours later, the thing is done. I know this is an exception, but they do exist... We also have others that are somewhat CPU intensive - just not to this extreme.
Rex -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 8:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Curiousity: CPU % for COBOL program I'm feeling under the weather today and our zSeries is pegged at 100%, so I thought I'd ask a curiousity question here. I hope you don't mind. I have never considered COBOL to be a language which would normally be used to write a program which would cause high CPU utilization (as in percentage). But I've noticed lately that many of our batch COBOL programs can run our z890 (capacity 250) at over 20% CPU as shown by SDSF. And I don't mean just a spike now and then, but for minutes at a time. Does this seem weird to anybody else? I am afraid that it likely means that the COBOL code is not written very well, but we don't have anything like Strobe (which we "threw out" due to cost during the previous management cycle), so I cannot be sure. Oh, and we won't likely get anything to replace it because the programmers refuse to use it anyway. They're too busy (and they are). Well, since I can't do anything about it anyway, it is just a talking point. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
