The Delete Output Queue (DLTOUTQ) command deletes the specified output queue(s) from the system.

Restrictions:

• The output queue being deleted cannot contain any entries: the output for each file must be printed, deleted, or moved to a different output queue.
• A subsystem cannot be active.
• The queue cannot be in use by a spooling writer.
• The queue cannot be deleted if it has been created by the system for a specific printer.

Parameters

Keyword	Description	Choices	Notes
OUTQ	Output queue	Qualified object name	Required, Positional 1
	Qualifier 1: Output queue	Generic name, name
	Qualifier 2: Library	Name, *LIBL, *CURLIB, *USRLIBL, *ALL, *ALLUSR

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Output queue (OUTQ)

Specifies the output queue(s) to be deleted. A specific output queue or a generic output queue can be specified; either type can be optionally qualified by a library name.

This is a required parameter.

Qualifier 1: Output queue

generic-name

Specify the generic name of the output queues that are to be deleted. A generic name is a character string that contains one or more characters followed by an asterisk (*), such as 'AR*'. If a generic name is specified, then all output queues that have names with the same prefix as the generic output queue name are deleted. The libraries searched for the output queues to be deleted depend on the library qualifier that is specified or assumed.

name

Specify the name of the output queue to be deleted.

Qualifier 2: Library

*LIBL

All libraries in the library list for the current thread are searched until the first match is found.

*USRLIBL

If a current library entry exists in the library list for the current thread, the current library and the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched. If there is no current library entry, only the libraries in the user portion of the library list are searched.

*ALL

All libraries in the system, including QSYS, are searched.

*ALLUSR

All user libraries are searched. All libraries with names that do not begin with the letter Q are searched except for the following:

#CGULIB     #DSULIB     #SEULIB
#COBLIB     #RPGLIB
#DFULIB     #SDALIB

Although the following Qxxx libraries are provided by IBM, they typically contain user data that changes frequently. Therefore, these libraries are considered user libraries and are also searched:

QDSNX       QRCLxxxxx   QUSRIJS     QUSRVxRxMx
QGPL        QSRVAGT     QUSRINFSKR
QGPL38      QSYS2       QUSRNOTES
QMGTC       QSYS2xxxxx  QUSROND
QMGTC2      QS36F       QUSRPOSGS
QMPGDATA    QUSER38     QUSRPOSSA
QMQMDATA    QUSRADSM    QUSRPYMSVR
QMQMPROC    QUSRBRM     QUSRRDARS
QPFRDATA    QUSRDIRCL   QUSRSYS
QRCL        QUSRDIRDB   QUSRVI

1. 'xxxxx' is the number of a primary auxiliary storage pool (ASP).
2. A different library name, in the format QUSRVxRxMx, can be created by the user for each previous release supported by IBM to contain any user commands to be compiled in a CL program for the previous release. For the QUSRVxRxMx user library, VxRxMx is the version, release, and modification level of a previous release that IBM continues to support.

*CURLIB

The current library for the job is used to locate the output queue. If no current library entry exists in the library list, QGPL is used.

name

Specify the name of the library where the output queue is located.

Examples

DLTOUTQ   OUTQ(PUNCH2)

This command deletes the output queue PUNCH2 from the system.

Error messages

*ESCAPE Messages

CPF1763

Cannot allocate one or more libraries.

CPF2105

Object &1 in &2 type *&3 not found.

CPF2110

Library &1 not found.

CPF2117

&4 objects type *&3 deleted. &5 objects not deleted.

CPF2182

Not authorized to library &1.

CPF2207

Not authorized to use object &1 in library &3 type *&2.

CPF3330

Necessary resource not available.

CPF3360

Output queue &1 in &2 not deleted. Output queue in use.

CPF3467

Output queue &1 deleted and then created again.

CPF3469

Operation not allowed for output queue.