When it comes to reducing the duration of system backups and nightly job streams, using this capability can significantly improve system uptime. Consider creating another job queue called QUERIES or REPORTS. This job queue remains HELD during normal business hours. Your end users and automated job scheduler submits long running batch reporting jobs to this job queue all day long. If you perform your nightly backups using the "save while active" parameters, you can let this job queue loose at the beginning of the backups. No updates to database files will occur, only reporting jobs. Make sure that you adjust the "Max Active" parameter on this job queue to the point where your system is buried. Now, rather than having a single threaded backup with a bunch of single threaded reporting jobs, you are actually using the capacity of the system to get all of this work done quicker.