Comments on: wrksyssts shows many active jobs while wrkactjob shows fewer

By: r.otto

r.otto — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 06:33:13 +0000

You may consider changing the systemvalue of QSPLFACN from *KEEP to *DETACH.
This will cause the system to detach any print output from an ended job, keeping the spoolfiles, but not the job and related information.

You can also check on a regular base what jobs are in the system with status *OUTQ (WRKUSRJOB *ALL *OUTQ). Then use option 2 on all that you want to detach and enter parameter SPLFACN(*DETACH). Or write a utility that does this for you, as I did for our system.

May get the number reduced by some 200000.

By: tjgm88

tjgm88 — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 05:51:52 +0000

It must be due to all the years of spool files which is showing such a large number. Also check your joblogs to see if they are cleared after a reasonable period.

Some sites thru users pressure hoard spool files using up valuable disk space even though these are accessed once in a blue moon! This can have a detrimental effect on performance of the machine,

Good systems will keep immediately need files and archive the old ones. Should look into it.