Comments on: Hold parameter in batch job

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The Most-Watched IT Questions: September 13, 2011 - ITKE Community Blog — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:17:03 +0000

[...] 4. Deepu9321, CharlieBrowne, WoodEngineer, Yorkshiremen, Paul102042, and TomLiotta are chipping in on a question about holding a parameter in batch job. [...]

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:20:29 +0000

Holding a batch job is necessary when you want to debug an ILE program in batch.

This hasn’t been true for quite some time. Setting a service entry point can eliminate a need to put batch jobs on hold for debugging.

Tom

By: paul102042

paul102042 — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:32:58 +0000

Holding a batch job is necessary when you want to debug an ILE program in batch. When doing that you need to STRSRVJOB on the held batch job. Then after STRDBG on your program, you release the job.

By: yorkshireman

yorkshireman — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 07:29:06 +0000

As to why you would hold a job,
well, duringthe day users press a command key that submits a job as held into a job Q
at night, when they all go home, the system releases the jobs and does the work.

By: woodengineer

woodengineer — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:18:01 +0000

Many shops run reports and big update jobs in batch. This keeps the interactive subsystem available to quickly respond when users press the “Enter” key.

The operating system applies processing efficiencies to batch jobs which is another benefit of submitting to batch when no operator interventions is needed.

By: charliebrowne

charliebrowne — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:32:46 +0000

Regarding the question “what is a batch job”?
In the simplest form, if you are keying in information, that is call interactive.
It you want something to run at a later time and without human intervention, you submit that job to a job queue and have it run in BATCH.