RE: Max Spool files

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Although I never thought about it before, I personally think that a lower
limit option is a plausibly good idea.  To the credit of IBM, they kept the
default which was the old implicit limit of a job.  A new lower limit would
be an enhancement to my opinion.  I will pass this on to IBM (with a bcc:
to this note).  Given the availability of the new system value, it strikes
me that a new lower limit would be trivial for IBM to implement.

Al - in Rochester, where I'm almost finishing the best two week school I've
ever had (taught in four and a half days)


Al Barsa, Jr.
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midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 06/05/2003 11:18:08 PM:

> 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
>
> Al Barsa, Jr.
> Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
>
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>
> 914-251-1234
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