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If they are creating that much data,  set the "correct" limit for the system as 
a default.
Any production job that exceeds that limit, can have an individual limit set in 
excess of the default.
Let everything else abend.

True story. Got an o dart thirty call, spool was full.
Located and purged the offending job. 100+mm linnes of output. Most of it was 
repetitive error messages.

A little bit of post-processing of SMF data indicated that only 2 production 
jobs in a month exceeded 16mm lines of output.
Set the increased limit for the 2 jobs (and the system default to 16mm lines). 
Allowed JES2 to abend offenders.

Later on, got a spool warning for 80%. Found a 5 similar jobs, each with 16mm 
lines of useless output (no o dark thirty call).
Was able to purge the abended jobs easily. No muss, no fuss.

Other than the SMF analysis, the above seems to be lot simpler to implement.

Good Luck



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Hello all!

I am wondering if we can use the smfucom to store a status of how many times we 
have increased the output limit.

I suspect the answer is no, but I cannot find anything describing what it is 
used for.


Thanks
Rob Schramm

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