Re: Saving Spool Files for a Migration

[rob@xxxxxxxxx]

Within the last week or so, the discussion has been that if you use SNADS 
you can do a SNDNETSPLF.  Use DTAFMT(*ALLDATA) if you do, and you should 
retain the printing attributes.  Any attributes about which job actually 
spooled it up will be gone.  For example, if I create a user on the new 
machine, called MYOUTQ with a default output queue of MYOUTQ and then I do 
a WRKOUTQ MYOUTQ on the old machine, put a 1 in front of every spool file 
and put the following at the bottom:
TOUSRID((MYOUTQ NEWSYS)) DTAFMT(*ALLDATA)
then the job name, etc will be different.  But the overlay, spacing, etc 
will all be there.
There is also a SNDTCPSPLF option.  Haven't played with that alot.  I use 
machine swaps as a good excuse to obliterate old spool files.  But then 
again, we delete all over a certain number of days - regardless.  This 
really drives home the fact that spool files are "generally" not backed up 
and you shouldn't rely on them.

Rob Berendt
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 I have a client on a 620 running 5.2 moving to an i5 running 5.3. We need 

to move around a 1,000 spoolfiles to te new box. We need to make sure that 

all the external attributes are restored as well, so a simple copy to a pf 

and restore isn't going to cut it. This will be a once or maybe twice 
deal.

I don't need something very fancy, but functional since it's a 1 time 
deal.  What has the group here used? Will BRMS at 5.2 handle spoolfiles? 
I've heard that the spoolfile restore is terrible in BRMS, at least time 
wise.

Thanks

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