RE: Max Spool files

Personally, I was glad to see QMAXSPLF introduced.  But I was
disappointed that the default 9999 is also the minimum value.  I was
hoping to reduce the max # of spool files a job can generate; not
increase it.  We have the occasional runaway JDE interactive job (in
certain programs when the session gets unexpectedly disconnected) that
loops creating job logs and dumps until it cannot create any more spool
files.  It uses our interactive capacity and wastes up to about 4GB disk
space if not stopped.  I would love to set the QMAXSPL to, say, 1000 to
limit the impact of these jobs.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Al Barsa [mailto:barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:34 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Max Spool files

A new sysval value was added in V5R1, QMAXSPLF.  The default is 9999.
The maximum value per job is 999,999.

Caution, based on source and a number of other factors, the total number
of maximum spooled files on a system ranges between 1.2M to 3.6M.

Al

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