It's been a little longer for me (about 7 years now!), but I believe there was
also a setting for the spool file extent size since your could only have a
maximum of 32 extents in a file.  You may need to increase this as well.

Regards,
Michael L (Perception is more important than Reality) Gueterman
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From:  Mike Liening[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:  Wednesday, November 06, 1996 2:19 PM
To:  [log in to unmask]
Subject:  Re: Data extraction from a HP 3000 MPE

Remembering back to my MPE/V days (okay, it's only been 6 months or so!),
there is also a setting in SYSDUMP for the maximum spoolfile disk
allocation in KSectors.  Even if your drives are nearly empty, this is the
maximum total number of sectors that the system can use for spoolfiles.
-Mike-
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Original Text
From: Larry Boyd <[log in to unmask]>, on 11/6/96 3:59 PM:
It sounds like you have a disk full problem on certain disks.  First,
you appear to be running a MPE V version of MPE, which is different
that MPE/iX, but I don't believe affects the problem (Is this right
other Larry B?)  In any case, a disk drive is configured with disk
"classes".  Only a drive with disk class "spool" (or is it "spooler")
will store spool files.  Unless your printer is not spooled, called
"hot", *all* files go to the "spool" disk(s).  Once on the disk, they
are printed on any accepted printer with the right print class (e.g.
"LP").  If your disk drives that are classified as "spool" drives are
full, you will receive this message even through the system as a whole
has disk space.  You can either:

1)  Re-classify drives with class "spool", which requires
re-configuring and re-booting.
2)  Add more drives (the other ones may be filling up also), which also
requires re-configuring and re-booting.
3)  Move files/groups/account to other drives that are not configured
as "spool".  This is the easiest for a quick fix, but you may not have
space on the other drives either.

Good Luck,

LB

On  6 Nov 96 at 9:50, Andrew Veal wrote:

> Does anyone out there have a solution to our problem.
>
> We have a HP3000 mini computer (Operating Program MPE version 7) which is
> being used to support our existing library system HP BOOK.
> We are about to move across to a new library system and need to extract
> our bibliographic and item records. We have been advised by the supplier
> of our HPBOOK system that the best way of doing this is to generate a
> print of our catalogue and item records and to capture this print to
> tape.
>
> We have now run into the problem that we can only generate very small
> prints because we receive an error message that there is insufficient
> spool file space. Our computer Centre staff (who have limited knowledge
> of the HP 3000) believe that this error message is generated because when
> the printer is off line the HP system has been set to spool only as much
> data as the printer can store in its memory at any one time. According to
> our computer Centre HP don't seem to be able to suggest a solution.
>
> To generate a complete output of our existing Catalogue (Bib records)
> using the above method may require several hundred print requests to
> cover the whole data base and will increase the likelyhood of dirty data
> or incomplete database output. Which we may not know about untill it is
> too late to correct.
>
> Our preferred option is to generate a report request through a print
> catalogue data report function in HPBOOK and instead of printing it
> capture it to tape. In order to do this we need to overcome the spool
> file problem.
>
> NOTE: the report that we are trying to copy to tape (or write directly to
> disc) is a compilation of a number of files and needs to be extracted
> through the running of a report and capturing it to disk or tape. The FTP
> option available for files therefore doesn't seem a viable option.
>
> If there are any  HP 3000 specialists out there who may have a solution
> we would be pleased to receive your advice.
>
> Please Email your response directly to :
>         [log in to unmask]
>
> In anticipation of a solution,
> Cheers,
>
> Robet Hornett
> Institute Librarian
> Hawthorn Institute of Education
> 442 Auburn Rd. Hawthorn Vic. 3122
> [log in to unmask]
> phone: (intl+61+3) 9810 3364
> fax: (intl+61+3) 9810 3226
>
>

Larry Boyd    <[log in to unmask]>
"Those who respect the law and love sausage should never be
      around when either is made."
(These opinions are my own and not those of Hewlett-Packard.)