METHOD FOR DISTRIBUTEDLY PROCESSING A PLURALITY OF JOBS IN A DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM

A method of reading data of the same file by a plurality of jobs in a shared manner which, when one of the jobs issues a read request to read data sequentially stored in the file beginning at a first position thereof, acquires a minimum record number of a record of the file which has not yet been read. The contents of the record having the minimum record number are passed to the job which issued the read request. With this configuration, data of one file can be processed by a plurality of jobs in a shared fashion and the processing load is shared by the jobs.