RE: How to save an Outq -- MIDRANGE-L

Don,

My technique does not touch QSPL, just the powers of CPYSPLF and OVRPRTF,
with a bit of RPG programming magic.

cheers
Colin.W
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Don [mailto:dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: 25 May 2004 01:39
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: How to save an Outq




Uh, concern here:

you can't just restore the PF's in QSPL and expect things to work. There's
ALOT more majic going on under the covers and you really have to in effect
deal with them on a member by member basis with some special processing.
Please don't think you can just do a sav/rstobj of the PF's and you're
covered....not so!

Don in DC



On Tue, 25 May 2004, Colin Williams wrote:

> Jim,
>
> possibly as  important as backing up the spooled file data to a 
> physical file, is creating an index entry somewhere for that spooled 
> file that records the information that you require in the unlikely 
> event of a restore. You dont know you need it, till you need it.
>
> cheers
> Colin.W
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Damato" <jdamato@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'" 
> <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 1:15 AM
> Subject: RE: How to save an Outq
>
>
> > It's been said a few times, but it bears repeating.  A spool file is 
> > a component of a job.  Once a job is gone from the system it's gone.  
> > In
> order
> > to restore a spool file you have to deal with the issue of which job 
> > it belongs to upon restore.  The various tools for saving and 
> > restoring
> spooled
> > output reconcile the problem using different methods.
> >
> > On some other platforms a spool is a temporary file/image used to 
> > buffer print information as a report is processed from the system to 
> > the printer. On the System 38, AS/400 etc. the spool file became a 
> > more permanent file carried along with the job that generated it.  
> > It was still meant to be a somewhat temporary "object".
> >
> > I've had to deal with criticism from those folks unaccustomed to the
> AS/400.
> > Many would complaint that VMS, Unix, etc. allowed you to save report 
> > file. I've tried to point out that on many Windows client apps the 
> > report is a temporary object, and the data is what's important.  
> > Selecting File/Print
> on
> > many client/app/server architectures generates a direct-to-print 
> > stream. Saving the printed output is an option, but not the default.
> >
> > Even though I've had to implement Broderick Spool Organizer 
> > everywhere I
> go,
> > I'm a strong proponent of not developing a dependency on spool 
> > files.
> Most
> > anything you need to save for reprint should be saved as data in a
> database.
> >
> > -Jim
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Graap, Ken [mailto:keg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 3:02 PM
> > To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> > Subject: RE: How to save an Outq
> >
> >
> > Don - I'd bet that they will in V5R4 of i5/OS....
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Don [mailto:dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Monday, May 24, 2004 12:02 PM
> > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > Subject: Re: How to save an Outq
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Can someone refresh me as to the reason why Rochester doesn't allow 
> > SPLF save/restore?
> >
> > Don in DC
> >
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