Re: Job numbers in threads

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/05/2010, at 10:57 AM, DrFranken wrote:

> You do need to allow for activity levels for the threads however. For
> example we have one job that runs all in it's own subsystem and is the
> only job in the memory pool. The job runs well over 400 threads so  
> there
> must be a high enough activity level for that subsystem to allow  
> many of
> the threads to run at once. In our case well over 100.  Before threads
> an activity level of 1 would have been good for that memory pool.   
> View
> the number of threads for jobs in WRKACTJOB and press F11 until the
> thread count is displayed.


Isn't that an implication of "thread" being short for multiple thread  
of execution therefore to have multiple threads active at one time  
would require an available activity level? Seems obvious to me but  
perhaps worth pointing out for batch jobs.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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