RE: Large Spools - How to locate them

Hi Mike,

The command WRKSPLF can probably be customized to do
what you are requesting.

If you prompt it with F4, you will find the default
user is *CURRENT. You can change this to *ALL and you
now have the ability to view all spool files currently
on the system. The next thing you can change is the
printer value from *ALL to *OUTQ.

With these two changes you will be able to view all
spool files in all OUTQ's on the system when the
command is executed.

The F11 key lets you change the view to see the #pages
per spool file.

You can check the CL reference to see whether you can
have the spool files listed in descending order by
number of pages instead of by their name (the command
default).

If you can, it is possible to build a new system
specific WRKSPLF CL command that is called with a
different name. When you execute the command you have
created, it executes WRKSPLF with the defaults you
need instead of the system supplied defaults.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi
E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxx

date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 06:59:12 -0700 (PDT)
from: Mike Berman <mikeba777@xxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: Large Spools - How to locate them

I have not had much luck w/ ops nav for the spools. It
seems first of all to take a very long time to bring
up an individual outq. I haven't seen this where you
can ask for all spools on all outq's it is one at a 
time. Also invariably I lose the list I am trying to
highlight.

Anyways, this idea is manual. I know that when there
are 15K pages there is always some process going on
that failed. Just kill it automatically I say.

Richard Casey <casey_r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mike and Rob,

Yes, you can do this with OpsNav. Go to "Printer
Output" (underneath "Basic Operations"). Once there,
the Options menu gives you "Include..." to select
what spool files to display and "Sort..." to pick what
order they are to be displayed in. Also, you can click
on the column headings to sort the display; once to
sort ascending, a second click to sort descending.

Enjoy!
Richard


-----Original Message-----
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rob@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 9:12 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Large Spools - How to locate them


Can you do this with iSeries Navigator?

Otherwise, you're down to using spool files api's.

Rob Berendt
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Mike Berman 
Sent by: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
08/25/2004 08:01 AM

HI I noticed that oftent there are spools of upwards
of 5-15K pages. There are often a terminal session
that was failing in some way, A printer that was
disabled for example. At any rate, I would like to be
able to look at all the spools for *all outq's, to be
sorted descending by # of pages.

Is there an existing command, or how would you do
this?

THanks,

Mike



        
                
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