Hi All,

We are looking to improve the performance of a COBOL program that processes 2 
VSAM files. The first file is the I/P file and every record read from the input 
VSAM file is searched for a matching record in the other file and a report is 
written. The program also applies some business rules while comparing each 
matching record.

The I/P file is read sequentially while the other file is read in a skip 
sequential basis. The test files that were used had 32M records each while 
production files have 110M records each.

Attached is the strobe report from the execution of the test job. The test job 
takes nearly 7 CPU minutes and was profiled to capture about 1 CPU minute of 
execution time.

We are attempting to optimize the VSAM access to these files as it is seen to 
take more than 50% of the CPU consumed by this job.

In the 'Attribution of CPU execution time' section, we see that the major 
contributors are the components 'QSAM INIT I/O  & EXITS' (Module IGZEQBL) and 
PARTITION COMMUNICATION. 

Could you please help us understand:

1.What these components are 
2.Why is QSAM access used instead of VSAM I/O access.
3.What needs to be done to reduce the CPU consumption by these components.

Thank you

Arun


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1Strobe* PERFORMANCE PROFILE                             PROGRAMA               
           01/02/2018           PAGE  42 
                                                                                
                                         
-  #ACE                                   ** ATTRIBUTION OF CPU EXECUTION TIME 
**                                        
-.COBLIB  IGZCPCO  IGZEVIO   VSAM INPUT/OUTPUT                                  
                                         
 ---------------------------WAS INVOKED BY---------------------   
-----------------VIA-----------------------  CPU TIME %
 XACTION           MODULE   SECTION  DESCRIPTION                   MODULE   
SECTION  DESCRIPTION              SOLO  TOTAL
                                                                                
                                         
          .LELIB   CEEBINIT          LE/370 BATCH INIT/TERM                     
                                                          .32   .32
          .LELIB   CEEBINIT          LE/370 BATCH INIT/TERM        IGZEQBL      
     QSAM INIT I/O  & EXITS            1.93  1.93
                                                                                
                                         
 XACTION  MODULE   SECTION   LOCATION  LINE   SOURCE TEXT          MODULE   
SECTION  DESCRIPTION                         
                                                                                
                                         
          PROGRAMA PROGRAMA   003522                                            
                                                             1.30  1.30
                                                                                
                                                                                
    ----- -----
                                                                                
                                                                                
    3.55  3.55
-.VSAM    IDA019L1           VSAM RECORD MANAGEMENT                             
                                         
 ---------------------------WAS INVOKED BY---------------------   
-----------------VIA-----------------------                CPU TIME %
 XACTION           MODULE   SECTION  DESCRIPTION                   MODULE   
SECTION  DESCRIPTION                   SOLO  TOTAL
                                                                                
                                         
          .LELIB   CEEBINIT          LE/370 BATCH INIT/TERM        IGZEQBL      
     QSAM INIT I/O  & EXITS              1.84  1.84
          .LELIB   CEEBINIT          LE/370 BATCH INIT/TERM        IGZEQBL  
CURRMEM  QSAM INIT I/O  & EXITS       4.34  4.38
          .LELIB   CEEBINIT          LE/370 BATCH INIT/TERM        IGZEQBL  
DVFILE   QSAM INIT I/O  & EXITS            .03   .03
          .LELIB   CEEBINIT          LE/370 BATCH INIT/TERM        IGZEQBL  
PREVMEM  QSAM INIT I/O  & EXITS      22.48 22.51
                                                                                
                                         
 XACTION  MODULE   SECTION   LOCATION  LINE   SOURCE TEXT          MODULE   
SECTION  DESCRIPTION                         
                                                                                
                                         
          PROGRAMA PROGRAMA   003522                               IGZCPCO  
CURRMEM  PARTITION COMMUNICATION    4.15  4.19
          PROGRAMA PROGRAMA   003522                               IGZCPCO  
IGZEVIO  VSAM INPUT/OUTPUT                   .57   .57
          PROGRAMA PROGRAMA   003522                               IGZCPCO  
PREVMEM  PARTITION COMMUNICATION  16.80 16.80
                                                                                
                                                                                
       ----- -----
                                                                                
                                                                                
       50.22 50.32

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