RE: Restore a source member

Jack,

Just as an FYI, on the iSeriesNetwork site in the Cobol
forum there is a downloadable routine that will retrieve
your source code from a spooled compile listing. 

Terry

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Derham
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 5:55 PM
> To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Restore a source member
> 
> Hi All List Readers and Writters,
> 
> On Monday I managed to fat finger a COBOL source member and 
> deleted. Then I
> get told by the operations group at a client's site that it 
> would be Friday
> before they could do a restore. Fortunately I had a good 
> compile listing in
> a spool file and because I had to get this program completed 
> for a release I
> restored the program the member using the cut and paste approach using
> iSeries Access. Lots of work and I kept thinking that in the 
> pass that I had
> used either a tool or a method to do a similar task but it 
> been a long time
> since I have had to do it and I have forgotten the details. 
> Can anyone fill
> in the details for me or point me to a tool to do such a task.
> 
> I tried posting this question from my clients site but 
> Midrange wouldn't
> accept it. We do learn something new everyday.
> 
> Jack Derham
> 
> Direct Systems, Inc.
>