RE: Saving and restoring spool files V4R5->V5R3

Would BRMS have any features that would allow this to be done relatively
easily?  And go across that many releases? 


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Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
Kingland Systems Corporation

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Buck
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Subject: Re: Saving and restoring spool files V4R5->V5R3

(Wayne, thanks for your suggestion, but: I need to respect
the original format and am afraid the CPYSPLF  > method does not

allow this)

Sure it does, if you do a little more work.  You need to create another
file; this one containing spooled file attributes.  Then use the spooled
file APIs and retrieve the spooled file attributes and store them in the
attribute file.  Then CPYSPLF to a PF.  Now you can move those two files
over to the other system and do the reverse:

Read a record from the attributes file, create the appropriate OVRPRTF
and then CPYF from the spooled PF to QSYSPRT.

Be advised that when you have done all this, you _still_ have a
different job, user and ID than the spooled file on the original system
had.  If the user ID or job name matters you can submit the job with the
proper name and user ID, but I know of no way to force the job number to
match the original.
   --buck
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