Tom Hula wrote:
>
> This question if for Bill:

Dare I through in an idea anyway ?

>
> I have an environment that is mostly Cobol and Protos (didn't I say
> Cobol already?).  However, I have one third party application that is
> written in Speedware and uses Allbase.  All of the other applications
> are very efficient ... interactive or job ... but the Speedware jobs are
> definite hogs.  I would like to put them somewhere where they don't
> affect the rest of us, like preferably on another computer.  But since
> that isn't possible, would it make sense to run all the Speedware jobs
> at priority ES or run in one of those new user defined queues at
> affective ES priority (Are the new queues still having problems?) so
> that I could always automatically have all the regular jobs pop in and
> run?

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HP sells the Workload Manager product, with which you can group processes
by certain criteria, and give the group a max_cpu_percentage limit. If
you couple this with user defined Multiple Job Queues it can provide a
very efficient way to control what you seem to be trying.

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Goetz.