Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria

Dennis,

With due respect, AFAIK if the job has ended and the spool files have been
detached (default job attribute, IIRC) they won't delete.


Regards,
Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert — eServer i5 iSeries
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

ENDJOB SPLFILE(*YES) works even aftwr the job has ended. That'd be my
approach
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"Charles Wilt" <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well assuming they were created by a user which doesn't have anything
you want to keep

DLTSPLF *SELECT SELECT(USERID)

Otherwise, iNav is your best bet...

Charles

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM, James Lampert
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

We have a situation.

We have some ten thousand spool files created by a program that

somehow

was allowed to run wild for a week, before anybody noticed that it

was

running wild.

Anybody know of a way to delete a whole lot of spool files, all with

the

same jobname, in a hurry?
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