If you can take a console dump of the address space with the branch trace turned on it MIGHT help. However, it is very difficult to determine if recurring addresses are due to a loop or due to normal processing that happens to run through the same code (ex. reading of a large file).
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jake anderson Sent: Monday, September 19, 2011 8:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Suggestion for a Job running Under a Loop Hi, Do you have any monitoring tools like STROBE or Omegamon (Tivoli)? No, We have a very basic Shop. What version of z/OS are you running? V1.8 Are these cobol programs or something else? Cobol Programs Are these loops with vendor products or in-house written programs? In House Written Programs. Jake/ On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > Hi All, > > > > I have development system(LPAR) here wherein the jobs submitted by > > the developers/trainees gets into loop very often. Usually i use to > > find this > through either > > the TGNUM value or through the EXCP Cnt. But today i found a genuine > > job( > not a > > system or admin job) running with high TGNUM EXCP and also with > considerable > > amount of CPU time . Are there any way to find a if a Job is really > consuming lot of > > CPU or Running Under Loop for a long time. > > > > Any suggestion or an advise would be of a great help. > > > > Jake > > > > > Jake, Do you have any monitoring tools like STROBE or Omegamon (Tivoli)? > > What version of z/OS are you running? > Are these cobol programs or something else? > Are these loops with vendor products or in-house written programs? > > Lizette > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
