Drain a spool volume

[Gordon Cooke]

I have issued the $PSPOOL(TPLX01) on a test lpar and this volume still
has a usage of 16 percent after deleting all output and stopping and
restarting all started tasks. Is there a method of freeing this volume
without an IPL?
Is there a command that I missed that will show me what is still using
the space?
Gordon Cooke
Systems Programmer
Centurytel

[Mark Steely]

I have encountered this problem before. In my case I used the $PSPOOL with the cancel parameter. When I issued this command the spool canceled all output on that Spool volume. All the jobs that were canceled were old obsolete jobs no longer being executed. I assumed that JES2 spool volumes over time tend to lose some space due to some type of corrupted pointers.

I was very careful when I made the decision to cancel the output, the spool was in draining status for a month and the spool went through one IPL in the draining state, which made sure no active jobs had the SPOOL volume. Also we have commands setup which everything that is 7 days or older is deleted. So I was very confident when I issued the cancel command that their was nothing using the volume.

I am not aware of a command which will show output allocated to the Spool volume.

Hope this helps.

Mark Steely
Southwest Airlines
(214) 792-7139

>>> gco...@CENTURYTEL.COM 06/12/00 10:34AM >>>

[Jack Schudel]

Check the $DSPOOL command for the correct syntax.

Back in the old days, it was $DSPOOL,JOBS=0,V=volser.
That would display all jobs with more than 0 percent of the spool space,
which had space on the "volser" volume.

Also, if the volume you are trying to drain is the first spool volume,
I believe that some of its space is devoted to RJE console messages,
which I think were kept under the $MASCOMM jobname.

/jack

[Gordon Cooke]

Thanks Jack,
That command showed that SYSLOG was the remaining user of the volume.
Gordon

[Mark Steely]

I think the command is: $DJOBQ,SPOOL=(PERCENT>=0)

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