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RB
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Hi,

How can we find out the total time taken to run a procedure?

Thank you.
 
Posts: 76 | Registered: October 28, 2003Report This Post
<Pietro De Santis>
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There are three system variables:

&FOCCPU Calculates the operating system CPU time in milliseconds.

&FOCTTIME Calculates total CPU time in milliseconds.

&FOCVTIME Calculates virtual CPU time in milliseconds.

Not sure what the differences between these are.

It's best to try them out.
 
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<Pietro De Santis>
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It's more accurate if you do it yourself.

Put this at the top of the program:

-* Set Report Start Date and Time
-SET ST_DATE = &YYMD;
-SET ST_TIME = EDIT(HHMMSS('A8'),'99$99$99');

Put this at the bottom of the program:

-* Set Report End Date and Time
-SET &EN_DATE = &YYMD;
-SET &EN_TIME = EDIT(HHMMSS('A8'),'99$99$99');

-SET &ST_HH = EDIT(&ST_TIME,'99$$$$');
-SET &ST_MM = EDIT(&ST_TIME,'$$99$$');
-SET &ST_SS = EDIT(&ST_TIME,'$$$$99');

-SET &EN_HH = EDIT(&EN_TIME,'99$$$$');
-SET &EN_MM = EDIT(&EN_TIME,'$$99$$');
-SET &EN_SS = EDIT(&EN_TIME,'$$$$99');

-SET &EN_HH =
- IF &EN_DATE GT &ST_DATE THEN &EN_HH + 24 ELSE &EN_HH;

-SET &ST_TIME_S = (&ST_HH * 60 *60) + (&ST_MM * 60) + &ST_SS;
-SET &EN_TIME_S = (&EN_HH * 60 *60) + (&EN_MM * 60) + &EN_SS;

-SET &ELAPSED_S = &EN_TIME_S - &ST_TIME_S;
-SET &ELAPSED_M = &ELAPSED_S / 60;
-SET &ELAPSED_R = FMOD(&ELAPSED_S, 60, 'F2');

-TYPE
-TYPE Report elapsed time: &ELAPSED_M mins &ELAPSED_R secs

For convenience, put the two pieces of code into fexes that you -INCLUDE into your report program.
 
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RB
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Hi Pietro,

Second one works well. I do not think &variables are giving the right time. Thank you for the solution.

I have one more idea that works.

Include this at the beginning of the program
-SET &STARTIME = HHMMSS(STIME);
-TYPE &STARTIME

Include this at the end of the program
-SET &ENDTIME = HHMMSS(ETIME);
-TYPE &ENDTIME
 
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Tom Walker
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How about this variation...

-SET &BEGTIME = HGETC(10,'HYYMDm');
-RUN

TABLE FILE ...
etc
etc


-SET &ENDTIME = HGETC(10,'HYYMDm');
-SET &SECS = HDIFF(&ENDTIME, &BEGTIME, 'SECOND', D12.2);
-SET &MILSEC = HDIFF(&ENDTIME, &BEGTIME, 'MILLISECOND', D12.2);
-TYPE Execution time in seconds = &SECS
-TYPE Execution time in mili-seconds = &MILSEC
-EXIT
 
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susannah
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so cool to know, kudos and thanks rb and tom.
I'd been using &tod and suffering.
This is great
 
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<Pietro De Santis>
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Tom, thanks for your suggestion, nice and clean.
 
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RB
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Thank you Tom. It never stuck to me that we can DIFF functions for the difference.
 
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Tom Walker
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I get a lot of date-time formatting tips from the presentation Renee Teatro gave in New Orleans titled, "That's not a date-time datatype, is it?". The link for the power point presentations is

http://www.informationbuilders.com/events/summit04/pres...Not_a_Date_TimeC.ppt
 
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RB
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A very good presentation. Thank you for the link!
 
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dballest
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I tried doing RB's suggestion:

Include this at the beginning of the program
-SET &STARTIME = HHMMSS(STIME);
-TYPE &STARTIME

Include this at the end of the program
-SET &ENDTIME = HHMMSS(ETIME);
-TYPE &ENDTIME

But it looks like it is not working. The start time is the same as the end time. I have a long report that when I time it using a stopwatch takes about 2 mins.

Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Dan


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dwf
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Possibly. Be sure you have a -RUN after the END statement of your TABLE FILE (and before the last -SET &ENDTIME). Otherwise, both the times will be captured before the report runs.


dwf
 
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reFOCUSing
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You will need something like this:
-SET &STARTIME = HHMMSS(STIME);
-TYPE &STARTIME
-RUN

-* Replace LOOP with reporting code.
-SET &TOKEN = 0;
-REPEAT :LOOP FOR &INDX FROM 1 TO 10000 STEP 1;
-SET &TOKEN = &TOKEN + 1;
-:LOOP

-SET &ENDTIME = HHMMSS(ETIME);
-TYPE &ENDTIME
-RUN
 
Posts: 406 | Location: Canada | Registered: May 31, 2004Report This Post
dballest
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dwf & reFOCUSING,

My program is acting strange. Below is the code:

-SET &STARTIME = HHMMSS(STIME);
-TYPE &STARTIME
-RUN

TABLE FILE ONE
:
:
END
-RUN

-SET &ENDTIME = HHMMSS(ETIME);
-TYPE &ENDTIME
-RUN

Output:
1. With the above code, when I view the source, it ends at the end of the table file. I don't see ENDTIME at all.

2. But when I remove -RUN after the TABLE FILE, I can see ENDTIME but the value is the same as the STARTIME.


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Posts: 197 | Location: Roseville, CA | Registered: January 24, 2005Report This Post
dwf
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Ah. Just noticed. When using HHMMSS in Dialogue Manager, you need to specify the format in parenthesis, not the variable name.

-SET &STARTIME = HHMMSS('A8');
-TYPE &STARTIME
.
.
.
-SET &ENDTIME = HHMMSS('A8');
-TYPE &ENDTIME


Not sure how you even got a result before


dwf
 
Posts: 135 | Location: Portland, OR | Registered: March 23, 2005Report This Post
dballest
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dwf,

I'm now able to see the ENDTIME after I remove the -RUN command on the TABLE FILE before it. Thanks for all the help!

Dan


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Posts: 197 | Location: Roseville, CA | Registered: January 24, 2005Report This Post
Tony A
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Dan,

One of the bugbears that has always been commented upon is the fact that &TOD has always been set to the time at which the FOCUS session began. Over time this has become to be viewed as an asset because, combined with the HHMMSS function you can get that elapsed timing you require.

Taking advantage of the above facts, you can declare a function in your profile(s) that will then always be available -

-* Calculate seconds between final and initial time.
DEFINE FUNCTION ELAPSED(X/A1)
DAY/YYMD = HDATE(TODAY('A10'),'YYMD');
DATE/A6YMD = DAY;
BEGTIME/A8 = EDIT('&TOD.EVAL', '99$:99$:99');
ENDTIME/A8 = EDIT(HHMMSS('A8'), '99$:99$:99');
BEGAN/A20 = DATE | ' ' | BEGTIME;
ENDED/A20 = DATE | ' ' | ENDTIME;
-* Convert to time stamps
DATE_TIME1/HYYMDSA=HINPUT(20,BEGAN,10,'HYYMDS');
DATE_TIME2/HYYMDSA=HINPUT(20,ENDED,10,'HYYMDS');
-*Subtract the two time stamps, getting difference in seconds
ELAPSED/D12.2=HDIFF(DATE_TIME2, DATE_TIME1, 'SECOND', 'D12.2');
END
-RUN
-* The RUN is important to ensure that the define is actioned immediately and therefore available
-* when required.


Then when you want to access the elasped time, just set a variable to the function output value -

-* Find elapsed time
-SET &ELAPSED = ELAPSED('X');


This will cover all your elapsed timing needs (or should do?).

T

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