Re: Clearing out spool files

["Clare Holtham" <Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Dave,

You just need to buy TAATOOLs and use DLTOLDSPLF - it will do everything and
more. You can find the tools by searching for Taatool in google. They were
written by Jim Sloan ex-IBM Rochester, and used to come with the AS/400.
They're still pretty cheap.

cheers,

Clare

Clare Holtham
Director, Small Blue Ltd - Archiving for BPCS
Web: www.smallblue.co.uk
IBM Certified AS/400 Systems Professional
E-Mail: Clare.Holtham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Mobile: +44 (0)7960 665958
----- Original Message -----
From: "David A Parnin" <daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 8:56 PM
Subject: Clearing out spool files


> Greetings,
>
> As part of our nightly backup we have several OUTQ's that we clear out.
> We've discussed the possibility of deleting spool files older than two
days
> so that we could reference recent activity.  Is there an easy way to
> accomplish this (system values, shareware, etc)?  I could do a WRKOUTQ
OUTQ
> (*ALL) OUTPUT(*PRINT) then a CPYSPLF to a database file, read through it
> looking for the desired output queues, then do a DSPSPLFA to get the date,
> and delete it if it's too old.  That just seems like a lot of work and I'd
> rather not reinvent the wheel if it's already been done.  Any suggestions
> would be appreciated.
>
> Dave Parnin
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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