Category:Quotas

Quotas are limits that determine the amount of resources a process can consume.

Deductible quotas are taken away from the process and never returned. Quotas of this type are shared between the processes in a job. The only deductible quota is CPULIMIT.

Non-deductible quotas are normally taken away from the process while they are using the resource and then returned to it when the resource is returned. Non-deductible quotas are:

• ASTLM (quota)
• BIOLM (quota)
• DIOLM (quota)
• WSDEFAULT (quota)
• WSQUOTA (quota)
• WSEXTENT (quota)

Pooled quotas are taken away from the process while they are using the resource being tracked and then returned when the resource is returned. They are:

• BYTLM (quota)
• ENQLM (quota)
• FILLM (quota)
• JTQUOTA (quota)
• PGFLQUOTA (quota)
• PRCLM (quota)
• TQELM (quota)

Systemwide quotas limit the amount of resources of a certain type used by a single username or account name:

• MAXACCTJOBS (quota)
• MAXDETACH (quota)
• MAXJOBS (quota)