The most frequent reason for a file to become SYSTEM HOLD, is that the spool got full while it was being created, so it signals the user that the file, is incomplete. When you find system held console files, you should probably issue CP SEND CP userid SP CON START to have the console spooling start again.
My URLIST EXEC can help you with this task: "URLIST PRT SYS" "ALL / CON /" (to view only -almost only- console files) and then "CP SEND CP /f SP CON START" on each of the files and then maybe "CH / NOSYS" to 'free' them or "PUR" to purge them Repeat this process for "URLIST RDR SYS" CP class D is required to list files of other users; CP class C is required for the CP SEND URLIST is on VM's download lib: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?LISTSG -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
