Over 400.000 Spoolfiles in three days

Question

Hello together,
we have several V6R1 partiotions. Since a few days I have on two partitions a lot of Spoolfiles with the following content:
Switch to user QSECOFR failed
This is the only text in the spoolfile.
File        User        User Data   Sts   Pages   Copies  Form Type   Pty
QPRINT      QSECOFR                 RDY       1       1   *STD         5 
QPRINT      QSECOFR                 RDY       1       1   *STD         5 
QPRINT      QSECOFR                 RDY       1       1   *STD         5 
QPRINT      QSECOFR                 RDY       1       1   *STD         5 
QPRINT      QSECOFR                 RDY       1       1   *STD         5
File        File Nbr  Job         User        Number  Date      Time    
QPRINT         6316   QPRTJOB     QSECOFR     474754  11.01.10  14:06:10
QPRINT         6317   QPRTJOB     QSECOFR     474754  11.01.10  14:06:10
QPRINT         6318   QPRTJOB     QSECOFR     474754  11.01.10  14:06:10
QPRINT         6319   QPRTJOB     QSECOFR     474754  11.01.10  14:06:11
QPRINT         6320   QPRTJOB     QSECOFR     474754  11.01.10  14:06:11
How you can see, this spoolfiles came from a job named QPRTJOB.
This Job is generated from the system for DRDA connection and other things.
Dokumentation for this job:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v5r3/index.jsp?topic=/rzalu/rzaluqprtjob.htm
or here:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas145751e5b298957558625713b0053b33e
When I use the command:
wrkjob JOB(474754/QSECOFR/QPRTJOB)
I can see the following in the joblog:
Job . . :   QPRTJOB       User . . :   QSECOFR       Number . . . :   474754                                                                               
Job log not displayed or listed because job has ended.
But the job is still running and creating 2 or 3 spoolfile every second. 24 hours a day.
This is a lot.
BTW:
I have installed PTF 09279.
We use 620 Kernel with Level 314.
We have application Servers with Kernel Level 315.
How can I find the source of this running serverjob?
best regards,
Carsten Schulz

Answer 1

FYI - we are running IBM O/S V5R4 (most of these links refer only to V6R1) and we also experienced the same problems after installing Solution Manager 7.0 EHP1. The WATCHDOG job would start attached to user QSECOFR and generate thousands of spool files that contained only the "switch to user QSECOFR failed" error message. We corrected all of these problems by applying all of the patches that were referenced in SAP note 1252258. Just wanted to alert anyone running V5R4.