RE: Transferring spool files to another system

Pete,

Have you considered using LPD/LPR to simply "spool" the reports from the 720 to 
the i5?
No tapes , no mess, no fuss (other than the STATUS flag and some attributes).

Michael Rooney
Citigroup International



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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pete Helgren
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 2:49 PM
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Subject: Transferring spool files to another system


I have a customer with a brand spankin' new i5 that I need to move spool
files to from the 720 they are retiring (there are a lot of spool files that
have been saved as archives of month end closings, payroll and W2 runs that
go back 4 or 5 years....).  Both machines are at V5R3M0.  They are
physically on the same network segment (logically too).  I looked around the
archives for solutions and stumbled across an old TAATOOL that saved and
restored spool files.  It works slick, except it saves the spool files in
*USRSPC objects and there are some spool files that easily exceed the 16m
maximum size (like 40m in size.....)

So the question is:  Is there another approach that I can use to accomplish
this one time movement of spool files?  What I really liked about the
SAVSPLF/RSTSPLF utilities was that 1. They are FREE.  2. They restored the
spool files in the users outq on the new system.  Sweet!

Any ideas would be appreciated.

Pete Helgren
Value Added Software,Inc.
801.581.1154 x202