<snip> I have never considered COBOL to be a language which would normally be used to write a program which would cause high CPU utilization (as in percentage). But I've noticed lately that many of our batch COBOL programs can run our z890 (capacity 250) at over 20% CPU as shown by SDSF. And I don't mean just a spike now and then, but for minutes at a time. Does this seem weird to anybody else? I am afraid that it likely means that the COBOL code is not written very well, but we don't have anything like Strobe (which we "threw out" due to cost during the previous management cycle), so I cannot be sure. Oh, and we won't likely get anything to replace it because the programmers refuse to use it anyway. They're too busy (and they are). </snip>
Not unusual at all. Poorly written code in any language can do this. E.G. In cobol terms, using display fields in computations instead of the relevant decimal or binary items (PIC 99999 vs pic 99999 comp-3 vs pic 99999 comp). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
