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2.7 iDoctor for iSeries Job Watcher
All preceding material was a generic discussion of wait analysis. Now we focus on the wait
analysis capabilities that are built into Job Watcher.
Job Watcher is a sampling-based performance tool. At specified time intervals, or as fast as
possible, a Job Watcher command or function will sample anywhere from 1 thread or job to all
threads and jobs on an iSeries i5/OS partition (or single system when there are no partition
configurations). This gathers a large variety of performance data, much of it beyond the scope
of this book. But one ...
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