Re: "Phantom" Spool file entries

[Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Many of the "stuck" files dated back to 2022 - we have IPL'd many, many times since then!

The STRSPLRCL seems to have (mostly) done the job.

 
Jon Paris
Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



> On Nov 10, 2025, at 5:47 PM, x y <xy6581@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sorry to sound like the MSFT support desk but an IPL might help.
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > 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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