PURGE

Enhancements

You may purge a nonprivate output spool file by entering PURGE spool file where spool file is the file name of the spool file. The PURGE command deletes the specified spool file, its spool file directory (SPFDIR) entry, and any checkpoint files that may exist for the spool file. The spool file does not print after it has been purged.

	NOTE: The PURGE command cannot be used on a private spool file nor can it be used on any file to which it does not have exclusive access. For that reason, it cannot be used on a spool file in the PRINT state because the spool file has been opened by an output spooler process. Use the SPOOLF ...;DELETE command instead.