>If you put TIME= on the JOB card, then this trounces the JOBCLASS TIME=, and >none of your steps, either the first step or in total, can exceed the TIME on >the JOB card.
While I agree with the second part, I do not with the first. As I described earlier, the job level TIME= defines how much CPU time *all* steps may use in total. The JOBCLASS TIME= value will still be the default for every step *not* specifying TIME= on the EXEC statement. However, the effective amount available to a step depends on how much is left in the job level bucket. And this may be less than asked for if the job level bucket is limited, i.e. if TIME= is specified on the JOB statement. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
