Spool Record and File Contents Preservation

While started, an Enterprise Server for .NET region creates spool records and writes job information to spool files. By default, when a region is cold-started, spool records are retained and spool file contents are deleted. However, you can modify these behaviors for a specific JES region by changing the default settings for the Preserve spool records and Preserve spool file contents options in the region startup file. See To Edit a Region Startup File Associated with a JES Region for instructions.

Preserve spool records

This option specifies whether spool record files are retained or deleted when the region is cold-started.

When set to True (default), spool records are retained across cold-starts.

When set to False, a cold start automatically deletes all spool records. This is done in the background and can take some time to complete.

Restrictions:

Spool records can be deleted only on regions that are WAS-hosted, meaning regions started using MMC, or started using the seestart utility with the -was flag. Even when set to False, spool records are not deleted on self-hosted regions.
If the data file location for the region is changed before initiating a cold-start, all spool records are retained regardless of this setting.

Preserve spool file contents

This option specifies whether spool file contents are retained or deleted when the region is cold-started.

When set to True, spool records are retained across cold-starts.

When set to False (default), a cold start automatically deletes the contents of the spool file.

Restrictions:

This option is not available if the region uses a shared catalog/spool. In this case, the contents of the spool file cannot be deleted.
The spool file contains metadata that is used to populate the list of spool records displayed in the Spool View. By default, that is, when Preserve spool file contents is set to False, these spool record files are not deleted unless Preserve spool records is also set to False.