Re: "Phantom" Spool file entries

Presuming you have cleared all the spool files that can be, consider CPRJOBTBL (compress job table) on the next IPL.

Job tables are not routinely compressed during a normal IPL, to this will add a few minutes to the process but might solve the issue.


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On Nov 11, 2025, at 10:46 AM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yes, I have an "all-powerful" profile, Jim.

Just in case I was hitting the kind of limit you mention I ran the function multiple times but the number stayed fixed.


Jon Paris
Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Nov 11, 2025, at 9:32 AM, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

are you doing the wrkoutq with a profile with special auth *SPLCTL to see
all spools?
(slightly related), fyi - if using apis to purge spooled files by date or
other criteria, the older api to collect spools had a limit of # of spools
returned and therefore purge "some" but not all- quick fix was to call
purge mult times
Jim Franz

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Many of the "stuck" files dated back to 2022 - we have IPL'd many, many
times since then!

The STRSPLRCL seems to have (mostly) done the job.


Jon Paris
Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On Nov 10, 2025, at 5:47 PM, x y <xy6581@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Sorry to sound like the MSFT support desk but an IPL might help.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2025 at 2:15 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

wrote:

I'm trying to clear up thousands of old spool files.

Tried using SQL to delete anything prior to 2025, and some disappeared,
but nowhere near as many as should have. Used option 4 to delete a

bunch of

the remainder to see if there would be some error message. Nope -

nothing.

So I decided to hell with it and used CLROUTQ against those queues that

I

knew contained nothing that was needed. That worked - kinda.

I now have this situation in WRKOUTQ:

Queue Library Files

QPFROUTQ QGPL 0
QPRINT QGPL 1731
QPRINTS QGPL 0

But if I take option 5 against the QPRINT entry, instead of seeing 1,731
files, I see 4! And those 4 are for currently active jobs so all normal.
But where the heck are the other 1,727 that WrKOUT shows?

Similar situation with QEZDEBUG, and QEZJOBLOG.

Any ideas on the cause and how to get the numbers to make sense?


Jon Paris
Jon.Paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx



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