I was working for a client in Ft Worth a few years back.
One of their employees was an oil & gas accountant who came from a mainframe 
environment, and at every turn he was complaining about the slowness of the 
AS/400 (OK - this was in the 90's...).
One day when mr. mainframe accountant was bellyaching about the slowness of 
the system, I used WRKACTJOB and sequenced the display by CPU %, showing 
that *he* was utilizing 95 % of the CPU by running a Query/400 
interactively.
My response to him was "It would not be so slow if there wasn't an asshole 
tkaing 95 percent of the CPU by running a query interactively!"
His response back to me was "You don't know *me* well enough to insult me!".
I didn't get fired, and we later became friends...  ;-D
-sjl
"D*B"  wrote in message 
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@Charles:
maybe we have very diffrent roles in projects and our experiences are very 
diffrent...
my role ist mostly, that somebody complains about lousy db2/400 performance 
or is saying: "this report takes more than ..., we need it within ...
and --- my custumors want to have answers within two days maximum => no time 
for playing around with nice toys!!!
@MTI: there is no reference to the originating queries, I have no choice to 
make them persistent, there is no controll over keeping and deleting
@PlanCache: I didn't find any usefull information in the plancache, 
regardless how often I delete it.
@Index Advisory files: ROTFL 99% rubbish!!!
have a nice evening
D*B 
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