We use Trident Services product OS/Em to do exactly that - We can limit a user to a max number of concurrent jobs independent of job name. I suspect that its probably a big hammer to bring in a product to do just that one function, but you'd get many additional benefits from using OS/EM
Jerry Whitteridge Sr Manager Managed Services Tech Operations & Innovation [email protected] 480 578 7889 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2025 6:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL Email: Curiosity question on batch job management All, We have a fairly large development environment that no matter how much capacity we would give it, its never enough. One thing that makes the problem worse, is that a single user submits multiple jobs with unique jobnames taking available inits from others. I know we could limit them to a specific jobname, forcing them to single thread jobs, but I'd rather do something in job selection that is jobname agnostic, but limits a single user to some number of concurrent jobs by userid? Looks like JES exit 14 or likely 49 could be utilized? Has anyone ever written such a thing, or something similar? Dave Jousma Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering This e-mail transmission contains information that is confidential and may be privileged. It is intended only for the addressee(s) named above. If you receive this e-mail in error, please do not read, copy or disseminate it in any manner. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of the contents of this information is prohibited. Please reply to the message immediately by informing the sender that the message was misdirected. After replying, please erase it from your computer system. Your assistance in correcting this error is appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ________________________________ Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. ________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
