RE: Restore QSPL to get back spool files

 One feature 
> being that 
> it could be legally proven that an image file could be 
> written to it, and 
> not modified after original creation to 'modify' some report data.
> 
> Rob Berendt
> -- 
> "All creatures will make merry... under pain of death."
> -Ming the Merciless (Flash Gordon)

Actually most optical disk sytstems, even worms, will overwrite a file.
In the case of WORM, they write a new directory entry and a new file.
Theoretically you can use the software to look 'under' the latest
directory entry for the old entry.

They do this because software and people screw up.

By now most everyone on the AS/400 should have a COLD system, it doesn't
make any sense to spend millions creating reports and then turn them
into paper, which is dead-end storage. Converting them to PDFs and then
having some on this drive and some on that is not even a half-way
solution. A COLD/ERM archive gives you instant search and the ability to
transform the data into other uses. There are a lot of good COLD systems
for the AS/400, and even a bad COLD system is a hundred times better
than paper.

Of course, scanned imaging systems are a lot more exciting.

Brad Jensen
www.elstore.com