Is there a more precise way to determine the proper value? Is there a display you can use to determine APPLBUF usage?
Release: ALL
Component: ESP Workload Automation
The APPLBUF size can be from 16376 to 8388600. As a rough estimate, there are approximately 512 bytes per job.
The default APPLBUF sizes for a given slotsize are:
4k slots=1048568
8k slots=2093048
12k slots=3137528
16k slots=4182008
Applications bigger that 4 megs require a slot size of at least 8k. If you are using ESP Encore, the APPLBUF must not be less than 1044480 bytes. You may be able to get the APPLBUF usage by issuing OPER LISTAPTF command:
OPER LISTAPTF
DATASET ESP.APPLFILE
FORMATTED AT 21.32.27 GMT ON FRIDAY JANUARY 18TH, 2019
3600 total slots, 137 (4%) used slots, 359 (10%) free slots
109 (3%) reserved slots, 28 (1%) unreserved used slots
3104 (86%) delayed free slots, 3050 delayed free records
Oldest slot is 1333, slot size is 4096
--- 1 ENTRY DISPLAYED, APPLBUF size is 1048568