Do you have a production batch job scheduling package (CA-7, Control-M) that tracks job execution history that you can compare against?
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Joe Monk Sent: Friday, February 11, 2022 10:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: EXTERNAL: Re: Batch job elapsed time baseline and alerts Thats what job management is for. SMF records 30 contain job elapsed time. Joe On Fri, Feb 11, 2022 at 10:19 AM Jantje. < [email protected]> wrote: > Esteemed listers, > > I have been tasked to put a procedure in place that will generate an > alert when a batch job "takes longer than usual" to complete. Yes, I > know, that is a rather vaguely stated requirement... > > I know I can find figures about the elapsed time of a batch job in one > of the SMF records. I think I can build a database of historic > runtimes and with a bit of thought, I am sure I can come up with a > query that will list me the "outliers". > > But in order to generate an alert when a job takes too long, I will > need some mechanism that gives me the information about that job while > it is still running. And while I could perhaps interrogate the system > (although I don't have a clear idea on how to actually do that) every > so often about the running jobs and compare the time taken of each > running job to the database, I am afraid that would take far too much > resources. Indeed, with several hundreds if not thousands jobs running > at any give time, the task of getting all the figures of these running > jobs and comparing this to the database will definitely not be cheap in > system resources. > > We don't have any budget for vendor products, I am afraid... > > And we're short of MSU's... > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks and very best regards, > > Jantje. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
