RE: Delayed Spool etc.

Jerry,

I've seen this a few times over the years, never determined the root cause.
Possibly a lock or contention issue.

https://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1019371
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/ssw_ibm_i_71/experience_web/spool_performance.pdf

Paul


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From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Saturday, June 01, 2019 7:40 AM
To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
Subject: Delayed Spool etc.

We are at 7.3 running on a "cloud" system.



Something really weird happened yesterday. The A/P clerk called me about
her checks not showing up after she ran the menu option to print them. The
procedure, by the way, runs in QINTER; i.e., it is not a batch job.



I ran WRKSPLF for both the user and the printer. No checks. Even ran it
against the entire system. No checks. I ran a query over the monthly cash
disbursements file, where the check-writer posts them for end-of-month.
There were checks there, but not for this run.



The user's joblog showed that the procedure completed without an issue.



The good news (I guess) is that suddenly the checks showed up in the spool
file, and the transactions were now in the EOM file that I mentioned. This
was after a 25-30 minute delay.



Our V-P, who was working with the clerk, said that there had not been any
issues printing earlier in the day. (She's very sharp, not some bleached
blonde.) And I had been working on a project earlier in the day without a
problem and even printed a couple of listings at my home office.



I have never seen this kind of issue in 45+ years. After they printed the
checks, I printed a short CL listing to the same printer; no delay, no
issues.



A firewall was installed at the vendor on Thursday, and the vendor's tech
was asked about the problem. She could find no issue with the system, and
doubted that the problem was related to the firewall. Just a coincidence?



Jerry C. Adams

To err is human; to blame it on someone else shows management potential.

IBM i Programmer/Analyst

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