Multithreaded Routines

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Objectives
 Objectives

 Understanding and performing batch processing

• Processes in T24
• What is a Batch ?
• What is Batch Processing ?
 Optimization of batch process.
• Batch Flow
• Batch Stage

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 Objectives

 Customizing using routines

• Multithreaded Routines
• How to Create the Multithreaded routines

– What is Common Variable

– How to write LOAD routine
– How to write SELECT routine
– How to write the PROCESS routine
– How to Write the PGM.FILE entry
– Where to add the routine in a BATCH
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 Objectives

 How to Initiate, Monitor and Control a Batch Process

• JOB.BATCH.CONTROL

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 Session wise Breakup

 Session 1
• Understanding and performing batch processing
• Optimization of batch process
 Session 2
• Customizing using routines
 Session 3
• How to Initiate, Monitor and Control a Batch Process
 Session 4
• Workshop

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Understanding and performing batch processing
 T24 Process

 T24 run in two distinct modes

• ONLINE &
• BATCH
 ONLINE
• for entering contracts and maintaining static information
 BATCH
• for processing events, calculating interest, and rolling the bank
date forward

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 What is a BATCH ?

 It holds the details of the processes that are to be run in the

T24 batch system.
 It allows the user to set up individual process for applications
 It defines various control parameters
 It decides how the process is to be run i.e foreground or
background
 It defines which default printer to be used to print reports
generated.
 It decides the jobs (application routines) to be run

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 What is a BATCH?

 It decides the cycling frequency and the next run date for the
jobs
 It Maintains the current status of the process and the
individual jobs
 It updates the last run date by the Batch Control System.

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 What is Batch Processing ?

 Processing group of activities during COB.

 Activities could be
• Application Processing
• Interest Accruals
• Generation of Reports
• Dates Changes etc

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 What is Batch Processing ?

 The Batch control system which is invoked to display the list

of processes to be run.
 If a 'company mnemonic' has not been specified then the
process of default company will be loaded.
 Otherwise the process of specified company is loaded.
 The Batch name should be a meaningful with respect to the
• Application or
• Function
of the process.

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Optimization of batch process
 Batch Flow

 BATCH
• Can have various stages
 PROCESS
• A Batch can have many process
 JOBS
• Each process can have many jobs

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 Batch Stage

 Batch Stage allows the user to group the processes into five
distinct stage namely,
• Application
• System wide
• Reporting
• Start of Day and
• Online

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 Batch Stage

 Each stage verifies the completion of all the processes in the

previous stage.
 If sequence number has been appended to the batch stage,
then the process can be run concurrently within the stage.
 If a sequence number (e.g. A009) has been specified then
the process can be run only when all other processes with
sequence numbers lower than this have completed
successfully.
 Processes with the same sequence number can be run
concurrently.

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 Batch Stage

 The first character in Batch Stage must be one of the

following:
• A - Application
• S - System Wide
• R - Reporting
• D - Start of Day
• O - Online

– The remaining 3 characters are process

sequence number and it should be numeric.

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 Batch Stage

 Modifications to the sequence number should adhere to the

following guidelines:
• Sequence numbers in the range 000 to 099 should not be
modified.
• Sequence numbers in the range 100 to 899 - only the last two
digits should be modified.
• Sequence numbers 900 - 999 should not be modified.

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 Batch Stages - Example

 Job Name :EB.CYCLE.DATES

 Batch Stage : A000
• The first job to get executed as a part of the COB process.
• It will cycle the dates for the online user.
 Job Name :B.DATE.CHANGE
 Batch Stage :D000
• This will cycle the date for the COB process.

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 Batch Stages - Example

 Job Name :BATCH.DATE.RESET

 Batch Stage :O999
• This job changes the next run date.

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 BATCH – A View

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 DEFAULT.PRINTER

 Specifies the default printer and form name.

 PRINTER.NAME allows the user to define a default printer.
 Default SYSTEM printer is defined in DE.FORM.TYPE.

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 PROCESS.STATUS

 Indicates the current process status.

• Status values are:

– 0 - Ready
– 1 - Running
– 2 - Completed successfully
– 3 - On hold or in error
 This is a NOINPUT field.

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 Batch Environment

 Defines the environment to run the process in

• F – for Foreground
• B – for Background
 A foreground process will run directly on the users terminal
 A background process will run as a phantom task.
 The background facility allows the user to run a number of
processes concurrently.
 The background option may only be used for those
processes which are in the reporting stage.

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 JOB.NAME

 The job name should have an entry in the PGM.FILE.

 The PGM.FILE defines the commands or application
routines to be executed as the job.
 The PGM.FILE record should be defined as type 'B'

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 VERIFICATION

 JOB.NAME can be dependant on other jobs by specifying

valid job name (s) here.
 The batch control system verifies all the jobs referenced
here for their completion
 The job (s) referenced must have entries in the JOB.NAME.
 This ensures that the jobs to be verified are all part of the
same process.

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 FREQUENCY

 Defines the frequency of the job’s next run.

 The next run date entered in field NEXT.RUN.DATE for the
job is automatically cycled.
 The following frequencies are supported:
• D - Every working day.
• Dnn - Every nn working day.
• W - Weekly every Friday.
• M - Last working day of every month.

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 FREQUENCY

• Mnn - Every nn or previous working day of each month.

• A - Ad hoc.
• Y - Last working day of the year.
• Ynn - Last working day of the nn'th month.
• Jxxx - Always run with job name xxx.

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 NEXT.RUN.DATE

 Specifies next bank date on which the job is to be run.

 If no date is entered then the next run date is automatically
calculated.
 For jobs with frequency ‘D’ the NEXT.RUN.DATE is not
taken into account.
 Year must be in the range 1950 - 2049

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 PRINTER.NAME

 Allows the user to control at which printer and form type the
output from the specific job is to appear.
 It overrides the default process printer specified in field
DEFAULT.PRINTER.

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 JOB.STATUS

 Indicates the current status of the job.

 Some common Job status values are:
• 0 - Ready
• 1 - Running
• 2 - Completed successfully
• 3 - On hold or in error
 This is a NOINPUT field.

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 LAST.RUN.DATE

 Indicates the date on which the job was last run.

 It is updated and maintained by the System
 This is a NOINPUT field.

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 JOB.MESSAGE

 Stores the job error message number.

 It is updated and maintained by the System
 This is a NOINPUT field.

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 USER

 Specifies the user name whose user profile is loaded when

the job is run.
 Allows a particular user environment for a job when it is
running as a part of the batch control system.
 The actual user profile of the user entered is used.
 If no user name is entered then the default profile of the user
OPERATOR is used.
 Must be a valid record on the USER file.

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Customizing using routines
 Multithreading

 When more than one process(tSA) can execute a single

process, the process is said to be multi-threaded.
 A thread can be an independent executable unit of a
process.

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 Why Multithreaded Routines

 Multi threaded routines get executed as a part of EOD/COB

process.
 To execute COB process in T24 effectively.
 To reduce the time taken to complete COB.
 The performance of the report generation could be improved
 Phantom services to Batch services (Single threaded to
Multithreaded)
 Multithreading jobs in Globus is possible only when EOD is run in
Desktop mode.

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 Working Of The Multithreading
Subsystem In T24
 BATCH.JOB.CONTROL splits the job into multiple threads
and executing them simultaneously
 BATCH.JOB.CONTROL is making the full use of the
processors available.
 Create a name for the job
• The name should be the name of the routine.

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 Working Of The Multithreading
Subsystem In T24
 The BATCH.JOB.CONTROL program first looks for a
program called xxx.LOAD. Once found,
 executes it and then executes a program by name
xxx.SELECT.

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 Working Of The Multithreading
Subsystem In T24
 I_xxx.COMMON
• This file will hold all initialized variables which will be used by
the jobs.

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 Creating Common Variable

 Create an insert file and define the variables as common

variables

 The Insert file has a keyword COM followed by a name

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 Creating Common Variable

 Include this file in all the 3 routines

• LOAD routine
• SELECT routine
• PROCESS or Main routine

 The common variables will loose their values only when the
user logs out of the session.

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 Working Of The Multithreading
Subsystem In T24
 xxx.LOAD
• This routine will perform all initializations
• Necessary files will be opened here

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 Creating a LOAD routine

Common Variable file Inserted

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 Working Of The Multithreading
Subsystem In T24
 xxx.SELECT
• This routine will create file with all the ids which needs to be
processed by this job
 xxx.SELECT will selects all the ids from the file.
 Selected list of ids from the file will be written to a hashed file
called xxx.LIST
 This LIST file will be automatically created by the system
with JOB.LIST.Session as the file name.
 The Session Number is the number of the session that
executed the SELECT routine.
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 Creating a SELECT routine

Common Variable file Inserted

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 Working Of The Multithreading
Subsystem In T24
 xxx
• This routine will be created with batch job name itself with ONE
argument passed
 This subroutine will manipulate on the ids available in the
xxx.LIST file.

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 Creating PROCESS routine

Common Variable file Inserted

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 Working Of The Multithreading
Subsystem In T24 – PGM Entry
 Create an entry in the PGM.FILE for the BATCH.JOB
 BATCH.JOB’ in the PGM.FILE describes the nature of the
job whether it is
• a single threaded job or
• a multi threaded job.
 For a multithreaded routine BATCH.JOB can have
• ‘NULL’ or
• ‘@BATCH.JOB.CONTROL’.
 For a single threaded routine BATCH.JOB should have the
name of the routine prefixed with an ‘@’.
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 PGM.FILE Entry

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 Working Of The Multithreading
Subsystem In T24 – BATCH Entry
 Create a new BATCH application with all the mandatory
inputs.
 Otherwise add the Job to an existing BATCH record at the
relevant stage.

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 BATCH ENTRY

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 Execution flow of Multithreaded routines

 Load Routine Load Routine Load Routine

 Select Routine
 FBNK.JOB.LIST.<3>

 Process Routine Process Routine Process Routine

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Initiate, Monitor and Control batch Process
 BATCH.JOB.CONTROL

 Key program that controls the multi threading process in

T24.
 splits the job into ‘multiple’ threads
 executes them simultaneously
 and thus makes optimum use of the available processors

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 BATCH.JOB.CONTROL

 The BATCH.JOB.CONTROL first executes xxx.LOAD.

 Then it executes a program by name xxx.SELECT.
 Here all ids to be processed are selected and written on to a
file by name xxx.LIST.
 Then BATCH.JOB.CONTROL picks up ids from the LIST file
and supplies it to xxx (Main routine).

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 BATCH.JOB.CONTROL

 Main routine will performs the required processes on the id.

 Copies of Main routine will be running simultaneously on the
available processors
 The BATCH.JOB.CONTROL dynamically decides the
number of ids to be supplied to each copy of Main routines
 It ensures and controls the repetition in the processing of
the same ID.

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 Monitoring the Execution of Main routine
during COB
 Can be Monitored using
• COMO
• F.JOB.LIST.<Session Number>

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 COMO

 Log files get stored under a directory &COMO&

 LIST &COMO& to get a lot of log files
 JED &COMO& <Log file Name> to view the contents of the
log file

 Log file ID : tSA_<Agent Number>_<Date and time>

 If an agent is restarted, there will be 2 log files for that agent
as the log file ID is based on date and time
 Log files do not get cleared automatically

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 Execution of Main routine in COB

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 Execution of Main routine in COB

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 Execution of Main routine in COB

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 Execution of Main routine in COB

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 Execution of Main routine in COB

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 F.JOB.LIST.SessionNumber

 Lists all the selcted ids

• LIST F.JOB.LIST.<SessionNumber>

 Opens the record to verify the records selected by the

processes.
• JED F.JOB.LIST.<SessionNumber> <List Id>

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 F.JOB.LIST.SessionNumber
To List the Records
Available in the
F.JOB.LIST.3

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 F.JOB.LIST.SessionNumber

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 F.JOB.LIST.SessionNumber

To view all the

Records from
F.JOB.LIST.3

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 F.JOB.LIST.SessionNumber

Press Esc , Type EX

To get the Next Record

Next Record from

F.JOB.LIST.3
Displayed

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 Batch Environment

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 WORKSHOP 1

 There is a LOCAL.REFERNCE field by name CHG.FLG in

the Account application. This field can hold any one of the
following values - ‘Y’ or ‘N’. If the balance of any savings
account falls below 5000, then this field is to be set to ‘Y’.
 This routine needs to be executed everyday. Check if this
local reference field already contains a value ‘Y’, if so, then
no check needs to be done to the balance of the account
and the value should remain as ‘Y’.

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