Re: Response Time measurement

["R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr." <rbruceh@xxxxxxx>]

Lurton Keel wrote:
> 
> I wrote a program to use the QUSLJOB API, but the response time I get is the
> Total Response Time.
> What the heck is Total Response Time?
> I ran the wrkactjob and my program and the RSP on wrkactjob for the job was
> .5 while the Total Response Time was 12575.

It is the total time for all transactions (in milliseconds, I think) and
you have to divide it by the total number of transactions for the same
period to get average response time.

> 
>                 -----Original Message-----
>                 From:   R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr. [mailto:rbruceh@ibm.net]
>                 Sent:   Thursday, September 23, 1999 7:32 PM
>                 To:     MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
>                 Subject:        Re: Response Time measurement
> 
>                 Lurton Keel wrote:
>                 >
>                 > One of our IT objectives is for the response time on our
> AS/400 620-2181 is
>                 > for the average response time 8-5 to be less than 2
> seconds.
>                 > Short of buying a tool, does anyone know of a way to
> programmatically get
>                 > the interactive response time so the data can be written
> to a file.  Like
>                 > YYYYMMDD HHMM 3.2 seconds.  We would run the job every 15
> minutes so that we
>                 > would get 4 timings per hour.
> 
>                 API's of course. QUSLJOB. This API can list the jobs active
> on the
>                 system and you can retrieve the response times from a list
> of key values
>                 within a user space that is output by this API.
> 
> 
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R. Bruce Hoffman, Jr.
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 -- IBM Certified AS/400 Professional Network Administrator

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