Re: Transferring spool files to another system

Hi Pete,

Some good ideas, for performing the spool file moving
task you have outlined, will be found in this IBM web
document:

http://www-912.ibm.com/s_dir/SLKBase.nsf/0888cc5d18fceca58625680b005dc690/d159a7de719e905986256aa9006a835f?OpenDocument

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
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Paul Tykodi
E-mail: ptykodi@xxxxxxxxx

>date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:48:30 -0600
>from: "Pete Helgren" <pete@xxxxxxxxxx>
>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




                
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