OOB Solution for looping batch jobs

[David Bishop]

Is there an OOB solution for identifying looping batch jobs in version 14.2 or 15.0? Or do you have to put something together for it?   

https://docops.ca.com/ca-sysview/15-0/en/using-ca-sysview/job-and-output-management/access-the-system-activity-display

We are looking at identifying jobs that have no SIO, little to no EXCP-cnt movement yet CPU utilization continues to increase over a given duration. Are there better metrics that can be used to ID that condition? Anyone else doing something different and can share?

[Douglas Miller]

David,
Consider a threshold like this:
DEFINE JOBCPUT% RSCE = RSCEATTR JOB LIMIT 100 DURATION 5

This would trigger for any batch job (RSCEATTR JOB) that averages 100% usage of a single CPU over the prior 5 minutes.  You could vary the LIMIT value based on the number of engines available on the LPAR, e.g. 200 would equate to monopolizing two CPUs.

At present there is no built-in way to threshold on CPU usage in relation to I/O.  To do something like that would involve having SYSVIEW threshold on say cpu-usage, which could get picked up by automation like OPS/MVS, which could then interrogate the I/O usage aspect.

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Regards,
Doug Miller
Software Engineer
Broadcom
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