Time=1440 to be avoided in production

meenakshi_forum · Active User Joined: 27 May 2008 Posts: 121 Location: India

Hi,

I need to know why Time=1440 should be avoided in production jobs?

Thanks

expat · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:22 am

It should be avoided in ANY job as it allows unlimited CPU time to be allocated to the job.

Just imagine if the code gets into a loop

dick scherrer · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 5:15 am

Hello,

On well managed systems, jobs with time=1440 are automatically purged and not executed. The only exceptions are certain system tasks (like CA-1, database, CICS, etc).

There is no good reason to ever submit any application job with time=1440. Other than being extremely dangerous, it is downright rude. . .

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 6:52 pm

If you are trying to prevent a time-out abend, suggest you check with your systems support or operations people. Your site probably has different job classes for different resources required. There may be a class already defined that will accomodate your cpu time requirement. If not, they can tell you what you need to do.

Here are some earlier threads:

www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=50054&highlight=1440
www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=46553&highlight=1440
www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=41089&highlight=1440
www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=32671&highlight=1440

santy · New User Joined: 19 Jul 2007 Posts: 22 Location: mumbai

TIME=1440, is the maximum (Unlimited) time allowed for the job.

If you not put time parameter then some job execute for long time and might be goes into infinite loop.

to avoid that TIME=1440 is the best option.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 1:50 pm

Question asked

expat · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:07 pm

Garry Carroll · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 2:14 pm

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Aug 06, 2010 7:31 pm

Hi Garry,

Unfortunately, "santy" advocates using 1440 to avoid the timeout.

Far better would be to either fix the code or run in the appropriate class.

With some of the slop that is being permitted these days, some people (when they are not prohibited) are using 1440 so their jobs won't time out. . . What nonsense

I'm completely in favor of these being auto-purged