Hi, Jerry,
Issue DSPSYSVAL QRCLSPLSTG -- what is it currently set to?
From the help text:
QRCLSPLSTG
Reclaim spool storage.
Specifies the number of days before empty spooled members are deleted
automatically. A change to this system value takes effect immediately.
Days to keep unused spooled storage
*NONE No retention interval. All empty members are deleted.
Using this value can have adverse effects on system performance.
For more information, see the Printing topic in the IBM i
Information Center at
http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/infocenter/. ;
*NOMAX The maximum retention interval. All empty members are
kept. You must use the Reclaim Spooled Storage (RCLSPLSTG)
command to delete empty spooled members from the system.
1 - 366 You may specify the number of days that empty spooled
members are kept for new spooled file use. If the members are still
empty after the specified number of days, they are deleted by the system.
Hope that helps.
Mark S. Waterbury
On Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 01:44:31 PM EDT, Jerry Draper <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In our hunt for disk spacew we deleted some 2 million spool files yesterday.
Still the QSPL library is running over 64GB when it was around 10GB a
month ago.
We had some runaway QZASOINIT jobs last week.
What are the mechanics of QSPL considering there just aren't that many
spool files in outqueues now.
Thx,
Jerry
midrange.com
