Randy, Actually, I think the fact since your power failure your spool has been higher tells me that before the power failure you were running with DUMP OFF.
This can happen without your knowledge (want to see the scars?). The initial allocation of spool on 440RES is enough to get you started but not enough to keep running in production. What probably happened is this - at some time you IPLed the system (maybe even the first time you IPLed z/VM) and CP tried to allocate a dump space on spool. There wasn't enough room because the space had been fragmented too much to hold the contiguous space needed for the dump. So the system gave an error message and carried on. Eventually you cleaned up some space on spool and then the power failure happened and caused another IPL. This time CP found enough contiguous space and allocated the space. And your spool space suddenly became much fuller. The currently allocated space is as cleaned up as it can get - it is empty, but reserved for a future dump. Ron -----Original Message----- From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Dray Sent: Monday, November 07, 2005 10:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Q alloc SPool Help Thanks to all, This has been a very intresting problem. In summary, It is the dump file allocation that is jacking up the spool space. I determined this by toggling the dump on and off. As determined the spool space is just to small. I will look into expanding the dump spool space or just the spool space in general. Is there a way to clean out the dump?? I don't want to get rid of it just clean it off. Erase all dump contents. If I did this will it the change the size?? normally when I do a Q alloc spool I get 24%. everday all day. about a month ago or so we had a system power failer(power company knocked us off during a ups power upgrade) and ever since then our spool file has been 83%. Why before Power failer 24%, after power failer 83%??? this tells me something dumped and is know filling up my spool. can I just erase it???? not remove file, just clear it?? shouldnt this reduce my spool file size requirements?? Thank you, --- "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is a very small spool allocation and sometimes dumps are nice to > have. You need to consider adding spool space if you have the dasd to > do so. > > Regards, > Richard Schuh > Randy Dray Systems Programmer Morton Buildings Inc. Morton IL (309) 263-6397 __________________________________ Yahoo! FareChase: Search multiple travel sites in one click. http://farechase.yahoo.com
