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Actually our problem was that users were using multiple outqs, not
just BPCSOUTQ. This gave the users visibility that things were going
to be gone days before they actually were gone.
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Subject: RE: Deleting Spool Files
Author: <BPCS-L@midrange.com> at internet
Date: 05/27/99 1:10 PM
We use the create date of the spool file to purge anything over 4 days and
not in a save Que.
We leave everything in BPCSOUTQ.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: patty_bernatz@gbc.com [SMTP:patty_bernatz@gbc.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 1:36 PM
> To: BPCS-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Deleting Spool Files
>
> I have a client that has many users that just don't clean up unwanted
>
> spooled output. We have created a set of save outqs, and a set of
> trash outqs. Every night, the nightly run reads through all outqs
> and
> does the following:
> -Keeps the save outqs as they are,
> -Clears the oldest trash outq (trash1, meaning last day before
> purge),
> - Moves all output from trash2 to trash1
> - Moves all output from trash3 to trash2
> - Moves all output from trash4 to trash3
> - Moves all output from trash5 to trash4
> - Moves all output from all other outqs to trash5
> Since users are now losing output, they are paying closer attention.
>
> Once something hits a trash outq, they know they had better either
> print it, move it to a save outq, or lose it. The five day rotation
> is necessary due to part timers.
> Since this is set to read all outqs on the system, any new outqs
> added
> will be processed.
>
>
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