Re: Program to read SAV output to IFS or userspace

Jim Essinger wrote:

I read the help for the SAV command to mean something like a .txt file, but
your example helps me remember that qsys.lib is a valid path for a stream
file name. Have you tried that? I will, but had not thought to point it
back to a member in a database file. Other save commands let you put the
output to a data base PF that can be copied, queried and archived. Easily
processed. The SAV command seems to be a little different. Any Idea on
what the record length of the PF should be?

Jim:

Note that the output can be to a spooled file, a stream file or a user space. For many purposes, streamfiles and user spaces are nearly interchangeable. The 16MB *usrspc limit is one potential problem here, but /might/ be far more than enough. The *usrspc needs to exist before SAV runs. I'd have to test to see if it auto-extends or if it has to have its attribute set first.

It takes a few minutes to figure out how to read the resulting *USRSPC info, but it can be done even in OPM CL. A DMPOBJ of a *USRSPC resulting from a test run of SAV helps a lot.

Tom Liotta