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- From: steve@rama.demon.co.uk (Steve Entwistle)
- Path: sparky!uunet!pipex!demon!rama.demon.co.uk!steve
- Subject: Re: Spool file size inconsistency
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- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:09:38 +0000
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- In article <9212161531.AA18297@noc2.dccs.upenn.edu> TOM@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU writes:
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- >We are running MVS TCP/IP 2.2.1 under MVS 4.2. I shut down the TCPIP started
- >task yesterday afternoon. This morning I executed a '$d spl,jobs=5' command
- >on the system console. The results indicated two jobs awaiting hard copy and
- >taking 5 percent of the spool space. One of these was from a CICS region that
- >suffers a lot of task ABENDs, and the other was from TCPIP. I then executed
- >SDSF under TSO. I had no trouble finding a huge file from CICS, but all I
- >found from TCPIP was a 92 line file. When I entered a '?' on the SDSF screen
- >to get detailed information about the various data sets comprising the job I
- >found reasonable looking byte counts, totalling about 6700 bytes. Does
- >anyone have any idea what is going on?
- >
-
- It is my understanding that JES2 does not free any of the spool space
- used by a job, until all the sysout datasets have been purged/printed. We
- suffer the same problem with CA-DISPATCH, where several million lines worth
- of spool space will be consumed until Joe Bloggs turns on his remote printer
- to allow his 10 line report to be produced, and thus freeing the space.
-
- Steve
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