RE: Parse Spooled Files

[Dan Kimmel <dkimmel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Scott. Great ideas. I didn't know about the catsplf utility. I'll use that. No QSH on the V4R5 box, though, so I'll have to work around that. Also a great idea with WRKOUTQ from QSH and pipe results to a file. Might also work with WRKSPLF as all the spooled files have a unique userid but not a unique outq.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
> Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:24 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: Parse Spooled Files
>
> hi Dan,
>
> In recent releases QShell has a 'catsplf' utility that can be used to
> read a spooled file (which in turn could be piped to the grep command.)
>   Unfortunately, I don't think this existed at V4R5.  (Though, it might
> be worth going into QShell and typing the catsplf command to see if it
> exists.)  It definitely exists at 7.1, however....
>
> $ catsplf -j 123456/MYUSER/MYJOB SPLFNAME SPLFNO
>
>
> You would need to get a list of the spooled files, though, you'll need
> the jobid, spooled file name and spooled file number to use catsplf (or
> CPYSPLF for that matter.)   A simple way to do that in a one-off program
> might be to use WRKOUTQ command.  If you run this via QShell, it'll
> automatically take the *PRINT option and redirect the spooled file to
> the screen, so from QShell, you'd do
>
> $ system 'WRKOUTQ OUTQ(The-OutQ)'
>
> You'd then need to write a loop to spin through the output of that
> command, which would be pretty easy to do in a shell script.
>
> -SK