Multiple Builds on AS/400 in Xe

I was wondering if there is a way to set up a multi-thread queue on the AS/400
to do package builds. I created the queue and manually moved the jobs that were
in the queue to multi-thread queue. When I did that the builds finished on the
AS/400 correctly but the build history was not upgraded correctly. The build
history still said that they were processing. When I resubmitted the build
thinking that the it would determine that they were already built, instead it
resubmitted the jobs on the AS/400.

I use to be able to do this when we had a 7332 machine but I have not been able
to get it to run in Xe.

Has anyone been able to do this in XE? Our Full builds are taking between 14-16
hours for both client and server. Just a server build takes 5-7 hours and we
would like to reduce this time. If anyone has any suggestions on how to get the
builds to take less time I would appreciate any feedback. (you can email me
directly).

CO - AS/400
ES - AS/400 820 V4R5M0
OneWorld - Xe SP13
NT - Deployment
Citrix

Ellen
AS/400 System Administrator
CNC Administrator

Have you tried adjusting the performance on the 400? Submit the job to a subsystem has it's own memory pool allocation.

Eddie J Urfer
Xe on AS/400 V4R5 LPAR

We have had the same problems.

AS/400:
I assume "Simultaneousbuilds" in the servers' JDE.INI is set to 0 (zero) and the Central Objects reside on the deployment server in MS SQL or Oracle and you are bulding the packages on desktop of the deployment server. By default the jobs are submitted in the default OneWorld Batchqueue on the AS/400 (see JDE.INI on deployment server)

[NETWORK QUEUE SETTINGS]
UBEQueue=[your queuename].

Set the maximum number of active jobs for this queue to about 7 or 8 (maybe more, if you have a powerful AS/400). This will cause the builds to complete in parallel mode.

Deployment server:
If you physical seperate the Windows NT operating system, pagefile, Central Objects databases and pathcode directory-structure on seperate disksubsystems, preferrably with RAID 5 and seperate channels/controllers, you will see an enormous decrease in build-time; client package in under 2 hours (without compression) and both server and client in 7 hours. (without compression)

Regards,

Niels Mosselman