Comments on: How to delete a user’s spoolfile in batch by date range?

By: woodengineer

woodengineer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:29:27 +0000

Check out IBM’s DLTOLDSPLF. It includes a parm for days to retain a spool file. We use it exactly as you describe. Works great.

The code should be available for download from IBM.

By: teandy

teandy — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 15:51:48 +0000

The CVTOUTQ & ADDDAT commands are part of TAATOOLS which was a licensed product from IBM but has since been dropped. Jim Sloan was the original author and I believe he took it with him when he left IBM. I’m not sure if you can still buy a copy or not.

By: aunumberone

aunumberone — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:27:48 +0000

I used the code above and the library at my company does not have the commands CVTOUTQ and ADDDAT. Is there any other commands I can use to make this code capture and delete spool files after a certain amount of days?

By: rcomstock

rcomstock — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 12:19:18 +0000

Check out DLTSPLFDAT. Herman Van Der Staey wrote a utility using the api. Not only is it a good tool but it has the techniques in it so that if you want to modify it for workspace specific tasks (such as moving old spoolfiles to a specific outq, changing spool attributes, etc).

By: slack400

slack400 — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:38:28 +0000

If you happen to have TAATOOLS on your system there are a couple of utility programs that you can use to do this. It would save some time over writing it from scratch.

(Every shop I visit seems to always have a 10 year old version of TAATOOLS)

By: cwc

cwc — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:08:59 +0000

Or, if you’d like the flexibility of using APIs:

There is an API, QUSLSPL, that will produce a list of spool files which have the critiera you specify through its paramameters. This list would be written to a user space. From an RPG program (or COBOL, or whatever your preferred language is), you could read through those entries and delete them. But I haven’t been able to find an API to delete a spool file, so you could use the QCMDEXEC method, although it seems a bit roundabout to me. Or, as each entry is read, you could move it to an out queue via the QSPMOVSP API. Afterwards, you could clear that out queue.

By: philpl1jb

philpl1jb — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:43:53 +0000

I think you’ll find some good examples if you search under
AS/400 DLTOLDSPLF or AS/400 DLTUSRSPLF

By: cin

cin — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:42:16 +0000

I need a sample CL program for this, anybody can help? Thanks.

By: tjgm88

tjgm88 — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:20:12 +0000

I agree with Phillip’s suggestion. Infact, I am writing a CL program as we speak to do the same.