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You should move your output queue item to the midrange-l list. You'd get
a plethora of responses there.

We delete all spool files over 90 days old - no exceptions. We have a
daily program that runs and does this. Back in the day there was no built
in way in the OS to save spool files so they weren't being saved - items
that cannot be saved cannot be critical - therefore spool files were not
critical. Relying upon unsafe items being there can hurt. Now, you can
change your backup procedures to include spool files but many people
don't.

There are APIs out there which will assist you in completing this.

<snip>
One I would like to have is for spool file ... key in some user name, some
OUTQ, and either a cut-off date, or some time-ago ... please delete all
spool file reports in the name of user-X in OUTQ-Y which are 2 or more
months old. Reason, I have not been able to get the company to include in
the training of new employees, CLEAN UP YOUR spool file, to only include
what you need to keep, such as reports since last backup, and monthly
reference what totals were. So guess who gets to delete them manually by
the thousands.
</snip>


Rob Berendt

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