Mark, All of your serious suggestions are already in effect. Thanks!
Bob >Before I go off and read a lot of pages in JES2 manuals, is there a >better way to do the following such that it does not tie up the >checkpoint for so long? > >$P JOBQ,Q=PPU,DAYS>7,PROTECTED $P JOBQ,Q=PPU,DAYS>2,PROTECTED (wait) $P JOBQ,Q=PPU,DAYS>4,PROTECTED (wait) $P JOBQ,Q=PPU,DAYS>7,PROTECTED :-) Seriously.... if you do that same command on a daily basis, I don't think there is any way to speed it up. Just try to schedule it at the time there is the least impact and if it is a shared spool also from a system that has capacity. Hopefully JES2 runs in SYSSTC. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:mark.zel...@zurichna.com z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html