Delete all but latest spool file member

Hi Dean

Within a job, when a joblog spool file has already been created, perhaps a
CHGSPLFA FILE(SPOOLFX) JOB(123456/USERX/JOBX) EXPDATE(*DAYS) DAYS(1)
will do it.

HTH
Gad

message: 2
date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:14:41 +0000
from: Dean Eshleman <Dean.Eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: Delete all but latest spool file member

Jeff,

Reviving an old thread here.

Does this method work for job logs? I would like to keep the last couple
of job logs for each production job around. Right now, we keep job logs
for 2 weeks and then they are purged. This doesn't work very well for jobs
that run less frequently than every week.

I tried doing a OVRPRTF EXPDATE(*DAYS) DAYS(10) on QPJOBLOG within the job,
but that didn't work. I tried with the Override scope set to *JOB and
*ACTGRPDFN. The expiration date on the job log was blank in both cases.
Any ideas on how to get this to work for job logs?

Dean Eshleman
Software Development Architect

Everence Financial
1110 North Main Street
PO Box 483
Goshen, IN 46527
Phone: (574) 533-9515 x3528
www.everence.com<http://www.everence.com>

On 9/5/2012 1:15 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:

As an alternative, how about expiring spool files?

I don't know exactly what you may be after, but you can do either OVRPRTF
EXPDATE(thedate) or OVRPRTF EXPDATE(*DAYS) DAYS(1). Then use a job
scheduler job to run once a day and run the DLTEXPSPLF command. It gets
rid of all expired spool files.

I use the DAYS() example a lot. Some reports 1 day, some 3 days, some 30
days, etc. There are different logs or registers that I create, never
intending to print, but may want to look at if an issue arises.

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