On: Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 09:35:06AM -0800,Wolfe, Gordon W Wrote: } Also, open spool files will not show up in CP QUERY <XXX> ALL. You will } only see closed spool files. We had a problem some years ago (HPO 5 on } a 4381, which will give you a time frame) of spool filling up and the } system crashing every Monday night at 10 pm. But nothing showed up in } spool. We came to the conclusion that we had a user with an open spool } file that was filling up the system, crashing it (HPO would crash when } the spool filled up), re-ipling and wiping out the open spool file, so } we never did see what was causing the problem. We purchased CA's } VMSPOOL, which can let you look at open spool files, and quickly found a } user had a fortran program that ran every Monday night, but had errors } in it. The printed report put out the errors in an endless loop and by } the time spool filled up had 2,500,000 records in just this one file. } VMSPOOL is the only tool I know of that lets you look at open spool } files and is worth its weight in diamonds for this one feature alone.
My SPLSTKXA will (with an option) show open spool files. By default it doesn't. -- Rich Greenberg N6LRT Marietta, GA, USA richgr atsign panix.com + 1 770 321 6507 Eastern time zone. I speak for myself & my dogs only. VM'er since CP-67 Canines:Val, Red & Shasta (RIP),Red, husky Owner:Chinook-L Atlanta Siberian Husky Rescue. www.panix.com/~richgr/ Asst Owner:Sibernet-L
