Re: ACS & FIN spooled files

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not sure that is what it means - I've seen SPLFs in DSPJOB that were 
printed, those are marked as FIN.

From a post in 2006, "Any of the spoolfiles [when using WRKSBMJOB or 
WRKUSRJOB] which have either been printed or been deleted will have a 
status of 'FIN' meaning finished."

Cheers
Vern

On 5/3/2022 2:45 PM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
> Pretty sure FIN means that the spool file was opened but never written to.
>
> I see these only when accessing the spooled files from WRKUSRJOB.  We do not see these with WRKSPLF.  And we definitely do not see them from ACS printed output.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Justin Taylor
> Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2022 2:35 PM
> To: MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: ACS & FIN spooled files
>
> In ACS Printer Output I used the filter to show spooled files for a
> specific job.  ACS gave an error message and prompted me to generate
> service logs.  IBM support tells me this is because spooled files exist at
> a FIN status, and ACS is working properly.  They suggest changing QSPLFACN
> from the default of *KEEP to *DETACH.
>
> Anyone familiar with that system value?  Are they any other considerations
> regarding changing it from the default?
>
>
> TIA