In addition to what Dennis said, these buffers are for concurrent access and are IN MEMORY above 16M. So they don't indicate "SPOOL full". Even on my relatively small z/OS system, I set this number to 209. "It's virtual, so it's not a real problem!" <grin/>
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:09 AM, Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> wrote: > We have an open-source STC which, if not shut down cleanly, has a tendency > to fill SPOOL. Obviously we need to hunt down the problem and kill it. In > the meantime, when it happens, and our system gets IPLed (second-level > guest, at IBM Dallas), we wind up unable to logon. Starting the guest gets: > > *$HASP050 JES2 RESOURCE SHORTAGE OF BUFX - 100% UTILIZATION REACHED > A TOTAL OF 49 BUFX ARE CURRENTLY DEFINED, OF WHICH: > 49 (100%) ARE IN USE > 40 (81%) ARE BEING WAITED FOR > 0 PROCESSORS REQUESTED BUFX BUT DID NOT WAIT > THE LARGEST UNFULFILLED REQUEST WAS FOR 0 BUFX > A MINIMUM OF 89 BUFX IS REQUIRED TO SATISFY CURRENT DEMAND > > Issuing commands like VINPUT VMSG $POJOBQ,ALL,PROTECTED,DAYS>0 seems to > purge a bunch of stuff (we get messages that suggest this is true, and > repeating the command gets "HASP003 RC=(52),PO JOBQ - NO SELECTABLE > ENTRIES FOUND MATCHING") but doesn't seem to actually help. > > So...from a SECUSERed VM logon, how can we clear SPOOL? A cold start would > suffice, although of course knowing how to do so without a cold start would > be even better (for those times when it's full but not yet down). > > Thanks. > > And yes, I've Googled and Googled 'til my Googler is sore; there must be > something I haven't thought of before... (with apologies to Mr. Geisel) > > ...phsiii > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not become ensconced in obscurity. In other words, eschew obfuscation. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
