RE: Background job to monitor outq?

Good rule of thumb is to double whatever you have.

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:22:20 -0700 (PDT), "Mike Berman"
<mikeba777@xxxxxxxxx> said:
> Michael, I like this approach. Do you remember in % how much you
> increased it?
> 
> "Rooney, Michael P [CPB]" <michael.p.rooney@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >From one Mike to yet another,
> 
> Have to agree with MichaelR_41......better to treat the problem.
> 
> We had exact same problem "years ago" and the cure was adding additional
> memory to the *SPOOL memory pool.
> 
> Of course you can always write a monitor utility but it won't really
> "fix"
> the problem.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Michael Rooney
> Citigroup International 
> 
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> 
> First off, don't get your haircut. Just let it grow.
> 
> Second, you would be treating the symptom and not the problem. You
> either don't have enough memory in your printer or your timeout settings
> on the printer need to be set higher. Another problem could be not
> enough memory in your *SPOOL shared memory pool on your iSeries. It may
> need more memory to do the EBCDIc-ASCII conversion.
> 
> Maybe a mullet. Just thinking out loud here.
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 07:25:31 -0700 (PDT), "Mike Berman"
> said:
> > 
> > We have a problem w/ a remote outq. What happens is that 
> > Periodically, usually after a large spool file, it hangs there. The spool
> > file stays in *SND status, and thus doesn't let the next spools print. I
> > would like to write a program that would check the status of the first
> > spool file, if it has been in SND status for more than 30 minutes, put it
> > on hold. Of course, the only problem w/ my brilliant idea, is if the
> > paper is out, but I would rather deal w/ that than having to go into this
> > outq 30 times a day and getting calls while having my haircut for
> > example.
> > 
> > Can this be done ?
> > 
> > 
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