RE: Clearing out spool files

["Rubino, Jim" <Jim.Rubino@xxxxxxxx>]

Dave,

We have done bascially what you said you could do, cpysplf etc. We created a
command here to clean outq's older than xxx # of days.  Here is a screen
capture of what the command looks like.

                       Clean up an Output Queue (CLNOUTQ)

 Type choices, press Enter.

 Output Queue Name: . . . . . . .                 Name
   Library name . . . . . . . . .     *LIBL       Name, *LIBL
 Job Description Name:  . . . . .   *USRPRF       Name, *USRPRF
   Library name . . . . . . . . .     *LIBL       Name, *LIBL
 # Days to Keep on the Outq:  . .   90            001-999

 
Bottom
 F3=Exit   F4=Prompt   F5=Refresh   F12=Cancel   F13=How to use this display
 F24=More keys 

We also have one for cleaning all spool files for a user or *all users.


Jim Rubino
Senior Business Systems Analyst
FIKE CORPORATION
704 South 10th Street
Blue Springs, Mo.  64015
(816) 229-6216  Ext. 213
 



-----Original Message-----
From: David A Parnin [mailto:daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:57 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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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