On Tue, 18 Feb 1992 17:19:00 CST "Juan M. Courcoul" <COURCOUL@VMTECQRO> said: >Pity. The only reason I have LMON is for its spool utilization checking. You are making a mistake. Get yourself an accurate spool checker from the VM-UTIL filelist or a workshop tape or whatever. The one used by LMON is inaccurate, giving a gross overestimate of the amount of spool space in use (it reads the counters maintained by CP, which are totally broken under non-XA systems). Determining the exact spool utilization under SP and HPO involves scanning control blocks whose format varies with the release, flavour (SP vs HPO), type of disk (CKD vs FBA) and, sometimes, service level. The program usually goes into a loop if the control blocks are not the way it thinks they are, so I refused to use anything that sophisticated in LMON. The result is that it can be off by 50% or more, and complain that the spool is 95% full when you have just purged half of the files. IBM fixed this problem in XA: I still read the CP counters (using a different and incompatible method), but this time they are accurate. By the way, SEARN runs VM/SP 5. Eric