
© Copyright IBM Corp. 2005. All rights reserved. 21
Chapter 2. Overview of job waits and
iDoctor for iSeries Job Watcher
This chapter gives a general discussion of wait analysis, then focuses on the wait analysis
capabilities built into Job Watcher.
Wait analysis is a major feature of the Job Watcher tool. Therefore, in order to understand the
examples shown in the other chapters in this book, we explain waits and the Job Watcher wait
buckets in detail in this chapter.
Later in this book we include examples of user-written queries against the files produced
during a Job Watch collection. To understand those queries and write your own queries, refer ...