Classification: Confidential JES2 ESTTIME parameter
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 7:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: JOB card format [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don't click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] 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 <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 7:45 PM To: [email protected] 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&[email protected] On Wednesday, May 8th, 2024 at 7:38 PM, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> 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 [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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ::DISCLAIMER:: ________________________________ The contents of this e-mail and any attachment(s) are confidential and intended for the named recipient(s) only. E-mail transmission is not guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, destroyed, arrive late or incomplete, or may contain viruses in transmission. The e mail and its contents (with or without referred errors) shall therefore not attach any liability on the originator or HCL or its affiliates. Views or opinions, if any, presented in this email are solely those of the author and may not necessarily reflect the views or opinions of HCL or its affiliates. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and / or publication of this message without the prior written consent of authorized representative of HCL is strictly prohibited. If you have received this email in error please delete it and notify the sender immediately. Before opening any email and/or attachments, please check them for viruses and other defects. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
