Thats what job management is for. SMF records 30 contain job elapsed time.
Joe 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
