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madhu2010

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:42 am
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Hi,

If I want to run a jcl for 3 -4 days then what should be the TIME parameter?

please suggest.

thanks
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Phrzby Phil

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:44 am
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Your folks need to tell you about job classes first - the jobcard CLASS parm.

Ask them for all the details. They should have a one page doc as everyone needs this installation-specific info.
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madhu2010

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:45 am
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actually I was asked this question in an interview.

i told as to give TIME = MAXIMUM or TIME = 1440, but not sure whether right or wrong.

So pls suggest the correct answer for this.
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Phrzby Phil

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 12:48 am
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If I don't know an interview question, I either:

1. Make an educated gues, and let them know that's what I'm doing. No one knows everything, and they should be impressed that you can try to reason it out given other knowledge.

2. Tell them I am familiar with the (online?) documentation and use it frequently in such cases.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:14 am
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Hello,

My answer would have been that i do not/will not create jobs that need to run continuously for 3-4 days. . .
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:15 am
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I would consider making it a started task. then the time parm would be redundent.
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nevilh

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:48 pm
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I would consider making it a started task. then the time parm would be redundent

In relation to the time parameter Started Tasks are subject to the same rules and restrictions as batch jobs
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dbzTHEdinosauer

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 1:55 pm
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thx nevilh,
always thought started tasks,
by virtue of being in 'a class of their own',
automatically had different time constraints.

glad to be wiser.
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Anuj Dhawan

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PostPosted: Thu Jul 15, 2010 4:49 pm
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madhu2010 wrote:
If I want to run a jcl for 3 -4 days then what should be the TIME parameter?
"3-4 days" is a very strange choice, even for an interview.
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i told as to give TIME = MAXIMUM or TIME = 1440, but not sure whether right or wrong.
So what was interviewer's reaction on that?

TIME=1440 exempts the job from all CPU and wait time limit checking the job can execute as long as it needs to. No S322 or S522 abend will occur for the job. TIME=NOLIMIT is the same as coding TIME=1440; no CPU time or wait time limit checking is performed by zOS.

However TIME=MAXIMUM allows the job to use up to 357,912 minutes of CPU time, or about 248.5 days of continuous CPU usage - much more than 3-4 days.
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