4. EXCEPTIONS › 4.3 Detailed Exception Descriptions › 03008: Resource Consuming Operator Job Cancellation

03008: Resource Consuming Operator Job Cancellation

FILE:             Batch User Job Activity
SAS FILE NAME:    DETAIL.BATJOB01
SOURCE LOCATION:  prefix.MICS.USER.SOURCE(DYSMFEXC)

SEVERITY:  Warning              (SEVERITY='W')
MANAGEMENT AREA:  Standards     (MGMTAREA='STANDARDS')

PURPOSE:  Identifies jobs that were cancelled after consuming
a considerable quantity of resources.

RATIONALE:   Job cancellations after large amounts of
resources have been consumed have a degrading effect on the
capacity of the system.  Such jobs should be identified and
analyzed as to why the costly cancellation was necessary and
how it can be avoided in the future.

DEFINITION:  This exception is detected when a batch job has
abended and the number of consumed service units exceeds the
installation-defined value.

EXCEPTION STATEMENTS:  The SAS statements identifying the
exception situation and describing the condition are stored
in the source member named in SOURCE LOCATION and are
described below.

*
**  03008
**  RESOURCE CONSUMING OPERATOR JOB CANCELLATION
*;
IF JOBCANCL=1 AND JOBSERVU > service-units THEN DO;
EXCCODE='03008'; SEVERITY='W'; MGMTAREA='STANDARDS';
EXCDESC1=
    'RESOURCE CONSUMING OPERATOR JOB CANCELLATION';
    EXCDESC2='CPU TIME(H:M:S)='
             || PUT(JOBCPUTM,TIME.)
             || ' EXCPS=' || PUT(JOBEXCPS,6.)
             || ' SU=' || PUT(JOBSERVU,7.);
    LINK HIT;
END;

THRESHOLD MODIFICATION:     Modify the value used for
service-units as follows:

    service-units - The number of service units.  A threshold
       of 250,000 appears as:

          JOBSERVU > 250000