I assume “QSFTJOBD” was a typo and the actual job description used is QDFTJOBD.
To get to the root cause of why the job logs are being generated, check the job description in the prestart job entries for QZDASOINIT and QRWTSRVR.
Both of those prestart job entries are shipped using the QDFTSVR job description. This jobd is set up with LOG(4 0 *NOLIST) and LOGOUTPUT(*PND).
These settings should never be changed. If you need to do some debug, create a different jobd, change ONLY the prestart job that needs job logs, and CHANGE IT BACK to QDFTSVR when done.
When a prestart job uses a job description with LOG(4 0 *SECLVL), a job log is generated ever time the job user is swapped - which can be a lot of times - and you can risk hitting the maximum number of spooled files on the system. That is not a fun event.
If this is only for the QRWTSRVR jobs and the job description looks ok, it’s possible the QRWOPTIONS data area was set up to create spooled job logs.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/ibm-drdaddm-qrwoptions-debug-data-area
QDFTJOBD is shipped as LOG(4 0 *NOLIST) but LOGOUTPUT is *SYSVAL, and the system value QLOGOUTPUT default is *JOBEND.
System value QLOGOUTPUT should be changed to *JOBLOGSVR, but *PND is even better.
Like Rob B has said, pending job logs are the best way to go - they eliminate all system resources to create spooled job logs.
Here are a couple of blog posts I wrote:
https://techchannel.com/i-can-blog/take-advantage-of-the-job-log-server/
https://techchannel.com/i-can-blog/take-advantage-of-job-log-pending/
Dawn
On Apr 7, 2026, at 5:01 PM, Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Our system has many QZDASIOINIT jobs running which are server by profile QUSER and job QRWTSRVR.
QUSER has a jobd of QSFTJOBD and it is creating hundreds of job logs for normal ending filling up QEZJOBLOG.
We want to eliminate these disk suckers.
Best way?
Create new JOBD for those jobs and config JOBD not to create joblogs?
Thx,
Jerry
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