RE: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria

System value . . . . . : QSPLFACN
Description . . . . . : Spooled file action

This system value is used for system and subsystem monitor jobs and
is the system-wide default for all other jobs. A change to this
system value takes effect for all jobs that become active after the
change. The shipped value is *KEEP.
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Sean Porterfield



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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis Rodriguez
Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2011 17:27
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Systematically deleting spool files meeting certain criteria

Dennis,

Ok. Tried the following (from a 5250 session);

PDM.
Printed several source programs.
signoff.

From another 5250 Session:

ENDJOB JOB(782597/ITLR/QPADEV002C) SPLFILE(*YES)

Gives CPF1321 - JOB QPADEV002C, User ITLR, Job Number 782597 not found, and the spoolf iles remain intact.

Infocenter tells me:

SPLFILE
Specifies whether to delete the spooled files created by this job.
Regardless of whether the spooled files are deleted, the job logs related to the spooled files are kept.
*NO: The spooled files are not deleted. They are kept for normal processing by a writer. When the job ends, the spooled file action (SPLFACN) job attribute determines whether spooled files are detached from the job or kept with the job.
*YES: The spooled files are deleted. If the job has already ended and the spooled file action for the job is to detach the spooled files, the End Job
(ENDJOB) command will not find the job and the spooled files will not be deleted.

My system shows *DETACH as the default valu for SPLFACN.


Regards,

Luis Rodriguez
IBM Certified Systems Expert - eServer i5 iSeries
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On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Dennis <iseries@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Luis, with almost as much respect (< -- meant to be funny) this would
almost certainly be because you haven't tried.

At least up through V5R3 it still works.
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"Luis Rodriguez" <luisro58@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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