RE: IBMathics : was WrkActJob percentages are way off -- MIDRANGE-L

It's all part of IBM's implementation of "Total Perspective Vortex
Technology" (c).

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> From: steven.donnellan@simonjersey.com
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> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 3:40 AM
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: IBMathics : was WrkActJob percentages are way off
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> IBM once drove ourselves and our accounts department nuts with a �12k
> invoice that was just identified as 'hardware'.  We were
> fairly sure if we
> had �12k's worth of hardware delivered, one of us would have
> tripped over
> it, banged our head on it, or just noticed the big cardboard box with
> 'IBM' stencilled on the side of it.
> The letters stopped coming from IBM, and started coming from the
> collection agency...
> Eventually, a lot of to-ing and fro-ing identified this 'hardware' as
> being an RPG/400 licence.
> Sirius Cybernetics Corporation style management or what?
>
> As for infinite improbability, I have had Queries that take seconds to
> produce the result when you press F5, but take days to run
> when you submit
> them to batch.  That's a mystery I'm still trying to crack...
>
> I also can't quite get WRKSYSSTS figures to match the amount
> of memory we
> actually have installed, but I usually put that down to
> decimal places and
> have a lie down.
>
> Steven Donnellan
> AS/400 Systems Manager
> IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
> Simon Jersey Ltd
>
> http://www.simonjersey.com
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> Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@ITM-group.co.uk>
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>         To:     "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
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>         Subject:        RE: IBMathics : was WrkActJob
> percentages are way off
>
>
> ... could be; perhaps peril sensitive sunglasses or wrapping
> your head in
> a
> towel may help with the invoices, you won't be able to see
> them so perhaps
> they will go away.
>
> As for simple (not) adding-up problems, perhaps a nice,
> strong, hot cup of
> fresh tea will cure it; I accept that a severe reprogramming with a
> space-axe would be more satisfying.
>
> I have been using 'fiddle-factors' for years on AS/400
> numbers that do not
> add up - here's another, add up the disk space in libraries,
> folders etc,
> add the current unprotected storage, you can get quite close
> to the %used,
> but it is always a couple of percent out.
>
> Jeff  'Marvin'  Bull
>
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> Subject: Re: IBMathics : was WrkActJob percentages are way off
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> Does this mean I have to factor in a constant of '42' on my
> performance
> reports, and the new motto of iSeries Nation is going to be 'Share and
> enjoy' (or to IBM Marketting 'go stick your head in a pig'...)    :-)
>
> Steven 'life, don't talk to me about life' Donnellan
> AS/400 Systems Manager
> IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
> Simon Jersey Ltd
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> Jeff Bull <Jeff.Bull@ITM-group.co.uk>
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>         To:     "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
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>         Subject:        IBMathics : was WrkActJob percentages
> are way off
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>
> For those of you who are fans of The Hitch-hikers Guide to
> the Galaxy, you
> should recall that particular branch of Math called
> 'Bistromathics'.  It
> is
> a branch of maths which kind of explains why restaurant bills
> never seem
> to
> add up, particularly when a group needs to pay for 'only what they've
> had'.
> The more you break down the bill, the less accurate is the total.
>
> I have suspected for some time that there is a similar but
> new branch of
> Math emerging from IBM, I shall call it 'IBMathics'.  Topically, it is
> evident on the WRKACTJOB and WRKSYSACT displays, but also in the
> Performance
> Tools reports, and curiously it has infected IBM invoices.
>
> Does anyone have any other evidence of IBMathics for the list
> to review ?
>
> Jeff Bull  :-)
>
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> WRKACTJOB doesn't show System Tasks.  Have a look at WRKSYSACT and see
> what System Tasks are running (including the almost legendary CFINT##
> task...)
>
> Steven Donnellan
> AS/400 Systems Manager
> IBM Certified Specialist - AS/400 Professional Operator
> Simon Jersey Ltd
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> http://www.simonjersey.com
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> "Patrick Conner" <pwconner@charter.net>
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> Sometimes when we WrkActJob the CPU utilization in the list
> does not come anywhere near what is being reported at the
> top of the display. Why is that?
> V4R5 with current ptfs.
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