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.

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