John Keener writes


Today I had a perfect application for the NEWJOBQ feature in MPE/iX 6.5. We
have two groups of users. One group submits jobs that take about 30 seconds
each. Typical jobs for the other group take about 5 minutes each. So I
thought I'll give the second group of users their own job queue.

NEWJOBQ ALTJOBQ;LIMIT=1
LIMIT 1    (for HPSYSJOBQ)

Now I submit a long job into the ALTJOBQ queue, and a quick job into the
default job queue. The second job goes into the WAIT state. Why?

It seems that the JOBQ feature has not been thought through completely. Am I
right, or am I full of corral dust?

Thanks for any help


John Keener
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You might want to dust yourself off.  Your NEWJOBQ statement is correct, but
your second statement didn't do what you thought.  To put a limit of one on
the HPSYSJQ job queue, your statement should read :LIMIT 1;JOBQ=HPSYSJQ.  By
saying :LIMIT 1, you are changing the total job limit on the system to one.
Since the total limit is one, and the long job in ALTJOBQ is still running,
the second job waits even though he is the only job in his queue.

Mike Berkowitz
Guess? Inc.

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