It may not be relevant to this particular application, but it is often important to look at the big picture. Years ago, a client I was supporting had a batch job that ran extremely long. Analysis revealed that most of the time was spent in a calculation of the penalty for early withdrawal that would be imposed if money was withdrawn from CD before it reached maturity. This was done so that the CICS application could simply display the value when a depositor asked for the information. It turns out that this information was being requested for a tiny percentage of the accounts each day, but the calculation was being done for every account every day.
The soution: Move the calculation to the CICS application. Yes, it caused the CICS application to use more CPU and run a little bit longer. However it shaved hours of run time and lots of CPU time from the batch job. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
