[OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-2] Batch/Print Job Numbering



We have a couple of batch jobs here (more than 1000 per day) and so we have
sometimes at lot of entries (pending, holding, executing, retained, timed, ...)
around.

It seems that normally the entry number falls back to 1 at ~2000 here.

It also seems that sometimes the entry numbers are not only 1-4 digits
but also 7 digit ones (I can't check right now, but I think I already
saw 7 digit entry numbers). No 5-6 digit ones ?

Does anybody know where this is documented ? I don't think it is.
Does anybody know a (supported) way of increasing the entry numbers
to not fallback that early (sometimes twice a day)...

Hoff once wrote that there is a guarantee, that there will be no duplicates.
I do believe that this is correct. But we have batch job logfiles where
you can see, that the same entry number is used more than once per day.
And this is very annoying...

Anybody ? Hoff ?

TIA

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Peter "EPLAN" LANGSTOEGER
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