RE: DSPF Command

Scotty,

There are at least two possible sources for this command.  

1.  There were two old, third party, S/38 developed commands called DSPF and 
UPDF (Display file, update file).  If you also have the UPDF commmand, that's 
likely where they came from.  These commands were created by a contractor 
working at Fairchild Semiconductor (Fairchild Camera & Instrument originally) 
in the early 1980's.  I have found these commands on S/38's and AS/400's all 
over the place (I work in Wa. state, but I've seen these commands on computers 
in Alaska and Ca. also).

2.  The TAATOOL product is delivered with a DSPF command included.   But given 
the info in your Email, I'm guessing the DSPF you have is not from TAATOOL.

As far as moving the command to another system, just display the command and 
find the CPP (command processing program) used.  Save the command and the CPP, 
restore to the other system and try.  If you need other objects (programs or 
files), you'll get an error message indicating what's missing (you may need to 
try this several times until you have all the objects you need).  I sorta 
remember that there were only a few objects needed for the command (cmd, pgm, 
dspf).

HTH,
Glenn Birnbaum

-----Original Message-----
From: Scotty Muir [mailto:SMuir@TriangleGroup.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:56 PM
To: midrange-l
Subject: DSPF Command


Hi All,
Being relatively new to the AS/400 I have what I hope is going to be a
simple question.
Within our company we have two older AS/400's, old running 3.2 and the other
running 3.7, I think. One was developed at  a outside location by people no
longer with the company.
On one of the systems our analyst has been using a DSPF command to display
file information. This command also allows the packed fields in this
information to be displayed in a non-packed format.
This command does not appear to be on the other AS/400 that we have. Does
anyone have any ideas why and what we would have to do to create the command
DSPF on the machine not having it? I can not even locate the source for this
command, DSPFSRC in library QIDU.
Thank you in advance for any suggestions.
Scotty


Scotty Muir
Sr. Systems Programmer
Triangle Auto Spring Co.
DuBois, PA.

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