Y2K Spool Files

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have been considering whether a home-grown utility I have that saves and
restores spool files can be used to assist in supporting our Y2K testing
for documentation purposes.

The utility uses the spool file API's to save spool files into a series of
user spaces stored in a library. A file is also generated in the same
library that contains some key data that identifies the user spaces and
holds the spool file attribute data.

If we were to save reports generated as part of the Y2K testing using this
utility, the possible problems I see are that:

1.      The user spaces, library and file will all have creation dates in the
"future" if restored to a system in the "present"

2.      The spool file attributes will contain a spool file creation date in the
"future"

3.      Spool files may contain job numbers that will be in use during the 
restore

Since using the API's to restore a spool file seems to ignore the creation
date (i.e. the original creation date is not restored when doing the spool
file create) and the job information also seems to be ignored, I feel I am
pretty safe, but I thought I;d ask the question.

Anyone got any thoughts on any possible implications ?

Cheers,
Evan Harris
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