We have an ancient home-grown batch system that runs on AUTOLOG1 and take s it's command from RDR files sent to it.
It's trying to read from the RDR, getting an error and leaving the RDR fi le open. When I re-ipl (because, I'm a PC, I reboot to fix everything) it t ries to read the RDR again, gets the same error showing the same SPOOLID open and so on and so on. I found out that if I PURGE the file and FORCE AUTOLOG1 then the file goe s away but the problem repeats with the next file in the RDR. I was hoping that PURGEing the bad file would just make the system happy but, apparently the files aren't the problem. Thanks all for helping me see that PURGEing is not the solution. Don
