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Nick--

Aware this may not be your issue, but it's too similar not to say something, maybe it will help lead to your answer...

Once had "phantom print" spool files appearing overnight, "out of nowhere" they would spew out of a 3rd floor printer until it was out of paper, and the next morning someone would come in and have to clean up.

After a month or so of sporadically investigating this intermittent mystery, it turned out the output queue had been set up with a Maximum spooled file size, above which the spool files would go to *DFR. Starting time was 00:00:00 or 00:00:01 and ending time was 23:59:59. In the milliseconds between end time and start time, a *DFR spool file would leap to life, spew, and then get set back to *DFR.

Not sure if it was always the same spool file or a duplicate was getting created by the printer job or something.

thx & hth,

--Jerome


On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Nick Franco wrote:

We have a very unusual problem going on here. We have a job that runs
nightly that produces a report that prints on a printer set up as a remote
outq. Here's the strange part: a duplicate of that spool file is being
created and sent to the same printer. This has been happening only for
this spooled file/job/printer for about a month or so. The duplicate spool file says it is created by user QSPLJOB. The job that created it is the printer name. The printer device type is *USERASCII while the original one is *SCS. The device file is QPTMPLPD in QUSRSYS. The accounting code is
*SYS. The program that opened file is left blank.The user defined data
shows the job name/user/file number of the original spolled file. The
other strange thing is that the spool file shows the total pages as being 1 with an asterick next to it. I've looked at the joblog for that printer
and every other spool file shows that the come from module QTMPLPRC
procedure main and goes to module SPRMTDR procedure SendTcpIpSpooledFile. This spool file comes from module SPRMTDR procedure SendTcpIpSpooledFile to module SPRMTDR procedure _C_pep. Does anyone have a clue why the system
is doing this and how I can stop it????


Nick Franco
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