RE: Keep Your IBM i System from Crashing Like Mine Did

We have an active monitor for this. I forget details, but when you mentioned *PENDING job logs, I remembered that we had to change some setting to stop these. I don't recall if it was QDFTSVR or something else.

Dan Bale

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Nice.

The delete spool file thing is good.

However in my case it was the more nefarious one which is the joblogs in limbo which haven't ended or created an actual spool file. That's the *PENDING ones that get created by server jobs.

That's why you can't/shouldn't have QDFTSVR and other jobs using 4/00/*MSG or 4/00/*NOLIST. It causes the pending joblog conundrum.

Regards,
Richard Schoen

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