AFAIK Unless the SYSOUT has FREE=CLOSE,SPIN=UNALLOCATE it will remain with the task until the task is cycled.
Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Phil Smith > Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 8:02 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Purging file from SPOOL > > We have a started task running. It has various SPOOL files open, to which it's writing - > SYSPRINT et al., including SYS00001. We have a LOG SPIN command, which can close > SYS00001; subsequent output to that DD then goes to SYS00002. > > Should we then be able to purge the SYS00001? It's closed - nothing is writing to it. but > P in SDSF says "INVALID COMMAND". > > This is an issue because the whole point of doing a LOG SPIN is to be able to purge the > closed piece of the log. What am I missing? Is there a way to purge the file? > > Thanks for any advice/thoughts/whatever. > -- > ...phsiii > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
