RE: How to save an Outq

Exactly.  Been a while, but as I recall we actually resolved from splf to
the mbr in QSPL which basically looks alot like the splf data (if SCS) and
you have alot of parsing and transation to do.

There used to few good splf data stream manuals on that, but there were
very hard to find back when....

Don inDC



On Mon, 24 May 2004, Al Barsa wrote:

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> Spooled files look like they live in output queues.  In fact, they do not.
> Output queues are pointers to the spooled file members in the QSPL library.
> Job structures also point to those members, assuming the job attribute of
> SPLFACN is set to the shipped default of *KEEP.  (To be technically
> correct, if all of a job spooled are set to *DETACH, the job structure is
> destroyed when the job ends.)
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> So when you save the output queue, you only save the description of the
> output queue, not the spooled data.  There are several pieces of software
> that allow you to save and restore spooled files, but they are relatively
> high overhead, and I don't think that they can reference the correct job
> where the spool originally came from.  Such software frequently runs into
> the maximum number of spooled files, as dictated by the system value
> QMAXSPLF.
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> Don - I'd bet that they will in V5R4 of i5/OS....
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> Can someone refresh me as to the reason why Rochester doesn't allow SPLF
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