The $HASP308 message being issued for an STC (or any job as a matter of fact), wouldn't be related to the TIME= parameter on the JOB or EXEC card. It's likely being set in a /*JOBPARM (if it's a started job, not a started task) statement in the STC JCL.
Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com On Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 at 8:58 PM, Phil Smith III <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > Thanks. I knew it would be something like that! > > What I wanted to grok in fullness was the TIME= parameter. Page 394 of that > PDF talks about it, but is vague about what the time value means. I always > thought it was CPU time, and the doc says things like "number of minutes the > step can use the processor", though that's an odd way to say "CPU time" IMHO. > And then it talks about "continuous wait state", which tends not to use much > CPU (!). Nowhere does it seem to define things in detail. Or maybe the wait > state thing is just saying (clumsily) that when CPU time is unlimited (via > TIME=1440 or TIME=NOLIMIT), the other, usually unrelated maximum wait time is > also overridden to be unlimited? > > What led me to this was an STC we have that's generating > $HASP308 <jobname> ESTIMATED TIME EXCEEDED BY 345 MINUTES > > yet total CPU used is 0.02. Some Googling found this APAR: > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA54766 > which says "These values represent Wall-Clock time". That totally confuses > me, and is perhaps just wrong. > > This thread: > https://bit.listserv.ibm-main.narkive.com/IAGR45k7/hasp308-message talks > about trying to limit based on wall-clock time and folks aren't saying "Sure, > that's what TIME= means". > > So...which is it? Seems like wall-clock (with or without the Random Capitals) > makes little sense?! > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On Behalf Of > Mark Jacobs > > Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 7:45 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: JOB card format > > Google JCL reference manual. You'll find the documentation there. Or just use > this link, https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/SSLTBW_3.1.0/pdf/ieab600_v3r1.pdf > > Mark Jacobs > > Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. > > GPG Public Key - > https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com > > > > > On Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 at 7:38 PM, Phil Smith III li...@akphs.com wrote: > > > I just spent far longer Googling than I think I should have NOT finding > > documentation on the format of a JOB card. Surely this exists.? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
