Re: Spoolfile Cleanup on powerdown/restart

["Henrik Krebs" <hkrebs@xxxxxxxxx>]

The IPL spl reclaim is a matter of removing *unused* space (just like deleted 
records). It can be done also by RCLSPLSTG at any time (use zero, - at least 
once - to see the effect).

The 'Cleanup' is a matter of deleting files, but in this case only system 
output.

Like Martins program there are lot of free utilities deleting user spool files. 
I have one too http://hkrebs.dk/dltoldsplf.html with other parameters

Saving spool files is easiest done by an "unofficial api" - maybe the names 
were QSPGET / QSPPUT - I am not sure that I remember.




Regards

Henrik Krebs

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> From: Martin Rowe <martin@dbg400.net>
> Organization: Jamaro
> To: midrange-l@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: Spoolfile Cleanup on powerdown/restart
> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 08:02:05 +0000
> Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
>
> On Thursday 05 December 2002 11:41 pm, Norbut, Jim wrote:
> > I have the QRCLSPLSTG set at 5 days.
> >
> > Here's my Cleanup settings :
> >
> > Allow automatic cleanup . . . . . . . . . . . . .   Y
> >
> >
> >  Time cleanup starts each day  . . . . . . . . . .   22:00:00
> >
> >
> >  Number of days to keep:
> >
> >    User messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   7
> >    System and workstation messages . . . . . . . .   7
> >    Job logs and other system output  . . . . . . .   7
> >    System journals and system logs . . . . . . . .   30
> >    OfficeVision for AS/400 calendar items  . . . .   30
> >
> >
> > Doing a DSPLIB QSPL *PRINT give me a total of   8032243712
> > Which is roughly 8 GIGS....that's what I assume he is talking about.
>
> Hi Jim
>
> Looks like you're going to need something to purge old spoolfiles as well
> - and maybe something to archive them off first. My web site has a free
> utility to do the first - http://www.dbg400.net/extras.html#prgoutq
>
>                           Purge output queue (PRGOUTQ)
>
>  Type choices, press Enter.
>
>  Output queue . . . . . . . . . . OUTQ
>    Output queue Library . . . . .                  *LIBL
>  Retain spoolfiles: DAYS  . . . . RETAIN
>  Retain *HLD spoolfiles: DAYS . . RTNHLD         *RETAIN
>  Retain *SAV spoolfiles: DAYS . . RTNSAV         *RETAIN
>
> but I'm not aware of any free utilities to do the latter. We use @riadne
> software's CoolSpools/400[1] for converting to PDF and it has a handy
> .sav format to give you an IFS file that can be archived (& restored
> later if required).
>
> Regards, Martin