Re: Deleting spool files by date -- MIDRANGE-L

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Philip Jackson <philipj4@midcomp.com.au> wrote:

>I'm wondering if anyone knows how to delete spool files by date.  I have an
>outq that gets a heap of management reports, about 1000 a month.  They are
>all saved after printing incase they are required again.  It is currently
>home to 6000 spool files.  What I want to do is delete those more than 6
>weeks old.  Or any other approaches you can suggest would be appreciated.

Philip,

There is a TAA tool that will do this for you and cost you nothing. Take a look
at DLTOLDSPLF. (Thought I'd try to get that in before Al did.) :-)

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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