PSF/AIX & Input Manager: Can you automatically delete files in the
ITEM: RTA000097581
Q:
ABSTRACT: PSF/AIX: Can you automatically delete files in the
work area for the Input Manager?
SEARCH ARG: psf aix segmentation
TOPIC THREAD: PRINT
PSF/AIX
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Customer has PSF for AIX V2 and is using it with MVS Download. They
They are having problems with the spool full conditions. They can
not delete old jobs automatically. Can this be done?
Customer uses MVS Download to send jobs to a daemon, and a script
creates segments (files in segment libraries). They would like
the oldest files deleted.
In the Input Manager smit screen they take the default for the
percentage of work area for retained jobs (90%). They also specify
automatic for the workarea management parameter. Yet, the old files
are not deleted.
What can be done? Thank you.
A:
One thing to check is that you have the most recent PTFs installed.
Input Manager has been enhanced so that it will better clean up its
work area. And please verify that the customer is either using the
sample mvsprs.sh shell script provided or that any customized shell
script being used invokes the psfin command--that's the only way to
invoke the Input Manager--I don't want to overlook the obvious.
If the work area management is automatic, when the work area fills up
Input Manager determines what percentage of the data in the work area
has been stacked on a printer. If the percentage is greater than work
area B has been configured for, Input Manager should delete retained
jobs until area B is smaller than the configured percentage. If the
percentage is less than area B is configured for, Input Manager will
wait for data to be stacked on a printer somewhere.
(If the work area management is manual and the work area fills up,
Input Manager takes no action. The user has complete control over what
is deleted and is responsible for clearing out the work area for new
print jobs.)
You cannot prevent PSF/AIX from retaining print jobs, but you can
configure Input Manager such that the amount of retained data is small.
To minimize the amount of data that is retained, configure area B
of Input Manager's work area to be 1%. See Print Admin for details.
We recommend that /var be at least 100Mb for Input Manager operation
and, in the best case that /var/psf/segments be the mount point for
new filesystem of at least 100MB.
If the above recommendations don't solve your problem, please open a
PMR so that we can determine the right diagnostic steps to take.
I hope this helps.
| Note that while much of the above information also holds true for
| Infoprint Manager, Input Manager does behave differently in some
| aspects between the two products and some of the default values are
| different. Infoprint Manager also has an attribute for a job or
| default job called "delete-segment-list". If set to "true",
| Infoprint Manager for AIX will delete the segment lists (and
| associated segments) when the segments) when the server is done
| processing (printing) the print request. PSF/AIX does *not* have
| this capability.
| Reviewed/revised 26 July 1999.
S e a r c h - k e y w o r d s:
AIX PSF PSF/6000 PSFIN SEGMENT DOWNLOAD MVS DELETE AUTOMATIC psf/aix
input manager workarea work area ipmgr infoprint
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Dated: 07/1999 Category: XPSF6000
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