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Re: Quick question: mass-delete of spool files?

FWIW:

What I ended up doing was writing a simple RPG program that (1) calls an SQLExecDirect front-end program we already have, to create a file in QTEMP listing the spool files for jobs of the relevant name, (2) shelling out a COMMIT with QCMDEXC, (3) walking through that spool file in a DOW NOT %EOF() loop, and (4) shelling out a DLTSPLF for each record, with another QCMDEXC.

Pity I couldn't (1) figure out how to have a WITH NC and a WITH DATA on the same CREATE TABLE query, and (2) ride The Cycle through a file that *has* to be USROPN (because it's created no earlier than *INZSR time).

Seems to me that allowing USROPN on a primary file would make perfect sense, but then again, there's such a pathological and irrational hatred of The Cycle among even RPG specialists that I'll probably never live to see such a thing.

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JHHL

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