You can display the job table with command DSPJOBTBL. Pressing F11 wil show you the jobs in a pending status.
Here are two links to IBM documents that helped me in setting up a scheduled job to clear the pending job table once a month.
HTTPS://WWW.IBM.COM/SUPPORT/PAGES/REMOVING-PENDING-JOB-LOGS
HTTPS://WWW.IBM.COM/DOCS/EN/I/7.5?TOPIC=SSW_IBM_I_75/APIS/QWTRMVJL.HTML
I set up a simple CL program to call the API.
PGM
DCL VAR(&SELVALUE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(44) +
VALUE(X'0000002C000000005CC1D3D340404040404+
05CC1D3D34040404040405CC1D3D340405CC1D3D340+
4040404040')
DCL VAR(&FORMAT) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) +
VALUE('RJLS0100')
DCL VAR(&ERRVALUE) TYPE(*CHAR) LEN(8) +
VALUE(X'0000000000000000')
CALL PGM(QWTRMVJL) PARM((&SELVALUE) (&FORMAT) (&ERRVALUE))
MONMSG MSGID(CPF0000)
ENDPGM
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We have a system with an unusually high number of jobs (200,000).
We were able to axe a bunch of splf but the number is still high.
We know that the IBM I keeps track of any fragment of a job (ie: spool
file) and counts that as a job until every frag is gone.
How can we assess what is keeping that number so high?
Thx,
Jerry
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