The data required for the elapsed time component of IOA Log Message SPY281I is calculated as follows:

Elapsed time = [IBM Message IEF376I] - [IBM Message IEF375I]

If there was any delay caused by resource contention before or during the execution of the job, Control‑M does not subtract the delay time from the elapsed time of the job. This maintains consistency with IBM practice, in treating the job initiation time as the primary job start time.

The elapsed time of a job is displayed in a SPY281I message even if the job ended in one of the following ways:

• The job abended.
• The job ended due to a JCL error (if IBM Messages IEF375I and IEF376I are present in the job output).
• The job ended with a condition code greater than zero.

The CPU (SMF ID) in the SPY281I message is extracted from the IBM message $HASP373. For users of the Thruput Manager product, the Initiator and Jobclass fields in the SPY281 message might appear as blanks.