On Mon, 7 Nov 2005 17:49:28 -0600, Stephen Frazier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On z/VM 3.1 Q PRT ALL shows open spool files. I don't remember when that was
>added (sometime in VM/ESA I think) but it was a lot of help diagnosing spool
>filling problems. Now VM doesn't crash when the spool gets full. It stops users
>that are adding to the spool.

Careful, though -- when the spool fills up, user programs get a NOTREADY from 
the virtual printer or 
punch. Very few programs are equipped to handle this. The usual result is the 
famous "unpredictable 
results". This also happens when a user exceeds the limit of 9900 spool files 
for any one user. (Why 
9900?)

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