Re: Transferring spool files to another system

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Pete,

why not look at the OS/Solutions spool archiver?

Other than that, you can do alot of ovrprtf/cpysplf's....:)

Don in DC

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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004, Pete Helgren wrote:

> I have a customer with a brand spankin' new i5 that I need to move spool
> files to from the 720 they are retiring (there are a lot of spool files that
> have been saved as archives of month end closings, payroll and W2 runs that
> go back 4 or 5 years....).  Both machines are at V5R3M0.  They are
> physically on the same network segment (logically too).  I looked around the
> archives for solutions and stumbled across an old TAATOOL that saved and
> restored spool files.  It works slick, except it saves the spool files in
> *USRSPC objects and there are some spool files that easily exceed the 16m
> maximum size (like 40m in size.....)
>
> So the question is:  Is there another approach that I can use to accomplish
> this one time movement of spool files?  What I really liked about the
> SAVSPLF/RSTSPLF utilities was that 1. They are FREE.  2. They restored the
> spool files in the users outq on the new system.  Sweet!
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Pete Helgren
> Value Added Software,Inc.
> 801.581.1154 x202
>
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