RE: How do I end a job that is ending?

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>Careful on ENDSBS!
>
>I had a writer job that wouldn't end, even with ENDJOBABN.  So
>I tried ENDSBS QSPL *IMMED.  The end result?  No printer output
>until the next IPL.  Because all jobs ended except the stuck job
>the subsystem was in an END status and STRSBS wouldn't start it
>because it was still ending.  I couldn't find this technique in
>"How to Win Friends and Influence People".
>
>Rob Berendt


IBM Support once gave us an "at your own risk" solution for ending writers
that wouldn't die.  This was back in the good old days of pioneering
AS/400-based TCP/IP printing.

        call qspendwa parm(<writer name>)

It seems like an ENDJOBABN for writers.  IIRC it had the same "you can't run
this twice within 10 minutes" stipulation.

I haven't had cause to use this method since V3.  It worked quite well with
writers that lost their mind while communicating to network print modules.
The program still exists on my V5R1 system, but I'm afraid to call it.  If I
were stuck in your situation I would try it before I would try ending QSPL.
Of course, I take no responsibility for what it might do to your system.

-Jim

James P. Damato
Manager - Technical Administration
Dollar General Corporation
<mailto:jdamato@dollargeneral.com>