TWS (Tivoli Workload Scheduler) has the long running job alerts. It is apparently quite resource hungry. That's the reason I developed my REXX/SDSF code and the automation guys said it did the job fine.
On Thu, Feb 17, 2022 at 3:03 PM Michael Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: > Some scheduling products have this built in. Will do some type of alert > when a job is running late. Can not remember which one has this > capability. > > On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:19 AM Jantje. < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Esteemed listers, > > > > I have been tasked to put a procedure in place that will generate an > alert > > when a batch job "takes longer than usual" to complete. Yes, I know, that > > is a rather vaguely stated requirement... > > > > I know I can find figures about the elapsed time of a batch job in one of > > the SMF records. I think I can build a database of historic runtimes and > > with a bit of thought, I am sure I can come up with a query that will > list > > me the "outliers". > > > > But in order to generate an alert when a job takes too long, I will need > > some mechanism that gives me the information about that job while it is > > still running. And while I could perhaps interrogate the system > (although I > > don't have a clear idea on how to actually do that) every so often about > > the running jobs and compare the time taken of each running job to the > > database, I am afraid that would take far too much resources. Indeed, > with > > several hundreds if not thousands jobs running at any give time, the task > > of getting all the figures of these running jobs and comparing this to > the > > database will definitely not be cheap in system resources. > > > > We don't have any budget for vendor products, I am afraid... > > > > And we're short of MSU's... > > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Thanks and very best regards, > > > > Jantje. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > -- > Michael Brennan > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
