Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria

I think I managed to come up with a suitable vacuum-cleaner program, and I have those who suggested a CL program to thank: the suggestion of looping through the spool numbers was rather close: I looped through the JOB numbers instead:

PGM PARM(&JOBNUMC)
DCL VAR(&JOBNUM) TYPE(*DEC) LEN(6 0)
DCL VAR(&JOBNUMC) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(6)
CHGVAR VAR(&JOBNUM) VALUE(&JOBNUMC)
LOOP:
CHGVAR VAR(&JOBNUMC) VALUE(&JOBNUM)
DLTSPLF FILE(QPRINT) JOB(&JOBNUMC/FOO/BAR)
MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000)
IF COND(&JOBNUM *LT 999999) THEN(DO)
CHGVAR VAR(&JOBNUM) VALUE(&jobnum + 1)
GOTO LOOP
ENDDO

(where FOO is the user, and BAR is the jobname).

It's quick and dirty, and unless you want it to sit there attempting to delete nonexistent spool files after it's already passed the leading edge of the job stream, you have to "SysRq 2" it after it does its job, but it managed to vacuum up the spool files at hundreds of times the speed you can do it manually, and thousands of times the speed at which they're breeding.

And if this nightmare starts to appear more frequently, it would be easy enough to generalize the thing; I already have it accepting a starting point (instead of starting from zero).

Thanks to all.

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JHHL