Reports to keep track if JOB takes more time to complete

nartcr · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 83 Location: anada

Hello,

I have a requirement to perform below action. At this point i do not know how to achieve this, but if you can point me in some direction that would be great. We use ZEKE for job scheduling, CICS for online processing,MQ as a communication channel between online and batch.

Say JOB1 is defined in ZEKE, and JOB1 takes more than 1 hour to complete execution ( when on an avg, it completes execution in 30 minutes ).

I want to develop something which would track any jobs taking more than a specified time in system. The idea is that, we should be knowing if there are any issues around JOB1 which would help us take corrective measures.

May be schedule a batch job, and run it every 15 minutes - this would check SDSF active jobs, gather the start time and check if it exceeds normal time limit? Is this doable?

My understanding is that CICS online region wouldnt be able to track the batch job details, however, i wasnt able to find anything which says ZEKE can communicate with CICS.

Any help is appreciated

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 9:30 pm

Hello,

For all of the jobs you want to track, create a file that has the jobname and the "bogey" time (how long is acceptable for a run).

You can run your tracker in real time for batch jobs by looking in the system and comparing current time running against the bogey.

You can also run the tracker against "yesterday's" smf data (you would need help frlom your system support people) for the jobnames in the file that has the jobnames and acceptable times.

Keep in mind that often when a job runs longer than expected it is because of something else in the system. Wall time is not a very reliable source for measuring. . .

nartcr · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 83 Location: anada

Thanks Dick,

Are you suggesting something like this -

Schedule batch job every 15 minutes - use some tool like EZACFM1 to capture only ACTIVE jobs, and record the start time, and compare it with bogey?

Is this my only option?

If a job runs in infinite loop, at present, we are manually monitoring it - I was looking for automating it. As far as SMF data goes, i would expect only after job/step completes execution the data goes in SMF.

expat · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:00 pm

Seems to me like another munch the resource project.

A job takes as long as a job takes, and with sufficient and applied testing should NEVER go into an infinite loop.

Get the basics right and you won't need to spend time and resource monitoring what should not happen.

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:16 pm

wooden wheels and stone knives.

ZEKE is a rather sophisticated piece of software. It is not some
piece of homegrown BS that attempts to automate job submission.

From the ZEKE Website a few quotes:

dick scherrer · Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 11:40 pm

Hello,

nartcr · New User Joined: 06 Jun 2007 Posts: 83 Location: anada

Thanks.