Re: Clearing out spool files

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 20:56, David A Parnin wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> As part of our nightly backup we have several OUTQ's that we clear out.
> We've discussed the possibility of deleting spool files older than two
> days so that we could reference recent activity.  Is there an easy way
> to accomplish this (system values, shareware, etc)?  I could do a
> WRKOUTQ OUTQ (*ALL) OUTPUT(*PRINT) then a CPYSPLF to a database file,
> read through it looking for the desired output queues, then do a
> DSPSPLFA to get the date, and delete it if it's too old.  That just
> seems like a lot of work and I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if it's
> already been done.  Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Hi David

There are quite a few tools - free, shareware & commercial that do that 
and a google search on clean/purge outq should find some of them. I have 
an open source utility on my site that does the job fine on our 
development box - we use OS Director on our production machine which 
handles that function amongst its other duties.

My PRGOUTQ utility - http://www.dbg400.net/extras.html#prgoutq
OS Director - http://www.os-solutions.com/director.htm

Regards, Martin
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