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I gave up on spool files long ago. I got tired of trying to figure out
where IBM had the information I needed whenever a new release came out.
And trying to have programs extract information from spool files and still
work on multiple releases. I've got enough stress on a new release and I
don't need to worry about spool file layout. Or trying to read outfiles
that may have their format change with a new release. Granted IBM
'mostly' does a good job in adding new fields to the end so you can work
around format level checks. But that can get ridiculous too - like
instead of telling us the object size you now have to multiple this field
by that field to get the object size.
Sample on that spool file that was really frustrating was trying to use
WRKSYSSTS to a spool to get the size of the system ASP. Remember jumping
from MB to GB? That's how long ago I gave up on spool file extraction.
Rob Berendt
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