File Management - IBM

168 File Management V4R5
the DLTSPLF or CLROUTQ commands. This procedure allows database members
to be used again, rather than having to increase the size of the spooling library to
accommodate new database members.
Displaying the data in the QSPL library may also prevent the data from being
cleared, wasting storage space. Any command or program used to look at a
database file in the QSPL library must allocate the database file and member; if a
writer tries to remove an allocated member after printing is completed, it will not
be able to clear the member. Because the member is not cleared, it cannot be used
for another inline data file or spooled file and it will not be removed by setting the
QRCLSPLSTG system value or running the RCLSPLSTG command.
Saving a database file in the QSPL library can cause more problems than
displaying the data in one member of the file because all members will be
allocated a much longer time when a database file is saved. Because restoring these
files destroys present and future spooled file data, there is no reason to save one of
these files.
The QSPL library type and authority should not be changed. The authority to the
files within QSPL should also not be changed. The QSPL library and the files in it
are created in a particular way so that system spooling functions can access them.
Changing the library or files could cause some system spooling functions to work
incorrectly.