Mark, Were you replying to Ted's comments or mine?
One more observation: I noticed that once the lock is released and the jobs start purging from the spool, it seems every member of the MAS is participating in the purge process. While I like that they are all being helpful, I am curious as to why it is happening this way. Ideas? Bob -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Monday, January 26, 2009 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: $P JOBQ Question On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:01:51 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[email protected]> wrote: >>Is the time the ckpt is held based on how much work it has to do, or how big the spool is or a combination of both? > >Based on work to do. Bob, So if that is true, then splitting out the command and running it more often would help since 7 days is really the same as 168 hours. For example, doing programmer output in the mid afternoon and early evening (depending upon how much of your purging is programmer output). Or even issuing the command twice during the night, the first time with HOURS>156 and then with HOURS>168. Or something similar, you get the idea... Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
