z/VM: CP Commands and Utilities Reference - z/VM - IBM

XSPOOL REMOVE
Responses
Examples
Response 1:
nn FILES REMOVED
is the normal response.
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To better understand how XSPOOL REMOVE and XSPOOL UNLOCK work,
consider this example:
Two systems, SYSTEM1 and SYSTEM2, are joined in a CSE complex. This
example follows one of USER01’s reader spool files in the two systems.
v USER01 creates a spool file, and an associated spool file block is created by CP
on SYSTEM1. USER01 logs off that system.
v The original spool file block remains on SYSTEM1.
v When USER01 logs onto SYSTEM2, SYSTEM1 locks the original spool file block
on behalf of SYSTEM2 and sends SYSTEM2 a copy spool block. SYSTEM1
holds the original spool block, and SYSTEM2 holds a copy.
v If SYSTEM1 goes down and the system operator has confirmed that it is down,
the operator of SYSTEM2 should enter the XSPOOL REMOVE command using
SYSTEM1 as sysname.
The copy spool file block that is on SYSTEM2 is deleted not only for USER01’s
spool file, but for all other spool file blocks that originated on SYSTEM1.
v The operator should also enter the XSPOOL UNLOCK command using
SYSTEM1 as sysname, because other original spool file blocks on SYSTEM2
may have been copied to, and locked by, SYSTEM1.
v All of the original spool file blocks on SYSTEM2 that were locked on SYSTEM1
are unlocked.