Re: slow response time for first, and only first time program is run.

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In researching the problem, apparently it is a known issue with IBM and 
efforts to fix it have not been effective.  It has something to do with 
contentious locking, if I understood the document correctly.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/experience/spool_performance.pdf

"Working as designed" is apparently the current fix.

elehti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Booth,
> I experience the same results on my V5R3M5 machine that you reported.
> About 120 seconds for the first spooled report generated by:
> WRKOUTQ OUTQ(QEZJOBLOG    ) OUTPUT(*PRINT)
>
> QPRTSPLQ    ELEHTI      ELEHTI                  RDY     401 
>
> About 2 seconds on subsequent: WRKOUTQ OUTQ(QEZJOBLOG    )
> OUTPUT(*PRINT)
>     
> QPRTSPLQ    ELEHTI      ELEHTI                  RDY     401      
> QPRTSPLQ    ELEHTI      ELEHTI                  RDY     401      
> Evidently WRKOUTQ is able to reuse the data path from the first time
> that WRKOUTQ runs.
>
> I have 21000 spooled reports right now.
> Queue          Library         Files      Writer         Status 
> QEZJOBLOG      QUSRSYS         21239                      RLS 
>
>
> 5722SS1  V5R3M0  040528           Work With Output Queue
> QEZJOBLOG   in  QUSRSYS      8/14/09   16:50:28      Page    1 
> File       User       User Data  Status Pages Copies Form Type  Pty File
> Number   Job        Number Date     Time              
> QPJOBLOG   JDESLEEPER J55365      RDY       1     1  *STD        5
> 1     J55365     571568 08/09/09 00:00:09          
> QPJOBLOG   QSECOFR    QINTERSTR4  RDY       1     1  *STD        5
> 1     QINTERSTR4 571569 08/09/09 00:05:00          
> QPJOBLOG   E2A1ADMIN  UPD_JOBSCD  RDY       1     1  *STD        5
> 1     UPD_JOBSCD 571571 08/09/09 00:08:43            
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