Re: "Phantom" Spool file entries

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Bryan - didn't think of that one.

Hasn't got rid of all of them - still a few outliers, but since they respond to a good old option 4, it is not a big problem.


Jon Paris
Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



> On Nov 10, 2025, at 5:36 PM, Bryan Dietz <bdietz400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> maybe this would do it:
>
> Start Spool Reclaim (STRSPLRCL)
>
> Bryan
>
>
> Jon Paris wrote on 11/10/2025 4:15 PM:
> > I'm trying to clear up thousands of old spool files.
> > Tried using SQL to delete anything prior to 2025, and some disappeared, but nowhere near as many as should have. Used option 4 to delete a bunch of the remainder to see if there would be some error message. Nope - nothing.
> > So I decided to hell with it and used CLROUTQ against those queues that I knew contained nothing that was needed.  That worked - kinda.
> > I now have this situation in WRKOUTQ:
> > Queue          Library           Files
> > QPFROUTQ       QGPL                  0
> > QPRINT         QGPL               1731
> > QPRINTS        QGPL                  0
> > But if I take option 5 against the QPRINT entry, instead of seeing 1,731 files, I see 4! And those 4 are for currently active jobs so all normal. But where the heck are the other 1,727 that WrKOUT shows?
> > Similar situation with QEZDEBUG, and QEZJOBLOG.
> > Any ideas on the cause and how to get the numbers to make sense?
> > Jon Paris
> > Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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> Bryan
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