Re: Spool File Duplicating

[Jerome Hughes <jromeh@xxxxxxx>]

Nick--

Aware this may not be your issue, but it's too similar not to say  
something, maybe it will help lead to your answer...

Once had "phantom print" spool files appearing overnight, "out of  
nowhere" they would spew out of a 3rd floor printer until it was out  
of paper, and the next morning someone would come in and have to  
clean up.

After a month or so of sporadically investigating this intermittent  
mystery, it turned out the output queue had been set up with a  
Maximum spooled file size, above which the spool files would go to  
*DFR. Starting time was 00:00:00 or 00:00:01 and ending time was  
23:59:59. In the milliseconds between end time and start time, a *DFR  
spool file would leap to life, spew, and then get set back to *DFR.

Not sure if it was always the same spool file or a duplicate was  
getting created by the printer job or something.

thx & hth,

--Jerome


On Aug 4, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Nick Franco wrote:

> We have a very unusual problem going on here. We have a job that runs
> nightly that produces a report that prints on a printer set up as a  
> remote
> outq. Here's the strange part: a duplicate of that spool file is being
> created and sent to the same printer. This has been happening only for
> this spooled file/job/printer for about a month or so. The  
> duplicate spool
> file says it is created by user QSPLJOB. The job that created it is  
> the
> printer name. The printer device type is *USERASCII while the  
> original one
> is *SCS. The device file is QPTMPLPD in QUSRSYS. The accounting  
> code is
> *SYS. The program that opened file is left blank.The user defined data
> shows the job name/user/file number of the original spolled file. The
> other strange thing is that the spool file shows the total pages as  
> being
> 1 with an asterick next to it. I've looked at the joblog for that  
> printer
> and every other spool file shows that the come from module QTMPLPRC
> procedure main and goes to module SPRMTDR procedure  
> SendTcpIpSpooledFile.
> This spool file comes from module SPRMTDR procedure  
> SendTcpIpSpooledFile
> to module SPRMTDR procedure _C_pep. Does anyone have a clue why the  
> system
> is doing this and how I can stop it????
>
>
> Nick Franco
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