RE: Saving and restoring spool files

[Chris Bipes <rpg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Using APIs you can list all of our out queues to a file.  For each out
queue, you can retrieve a list of all spool files.  You then, using APIs
read each spool file and write to a physical file, saving the attributes.
i.e. job name, number, user, spool file name, number, user data, ect.,
deleting the saved spool files one by one.  Then using another API you can
create new spool files on the new machine setting the attributes to what was
saved from the Physical File that you saved/restored.  In theory this works,
any one written it yet and care to share?

Christopher K. Bipes     mailto:ChrisB@Cross-Check.com
Sr. Programmer/Analyst   mailto:Chris_Bipes@Yahoo.com
CrossCheck, Inc.         http://www.cross-check.com
6119 State Farm Drive    Phone: 707 586-0551 x 1102
Rohnert Park CA  94928 Fax: 707 586-1884

If consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, only geniuses work here.
Karen Herbelin - Readers Digest 3/2000


-----Original Message-----
From: keblankenship@highlights-corp.com
[mailto:keblankenship@highlights-corp.com]
Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 12:05 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Saving and restoring spool files


We are about to upgrade our machine. And my understanding is that standard
saves still do not support backing up and restoring spool files
properly(still
associated with the same job/user and in the same queue). So I dug up the
Qusrtool that handles this only to discover that it requires the C compiler.
Which of course we don't have.  So does anyone have any suggestions for
being able to save and restore spool files? We are on 4.4.0

-Kevin Blankenship
Programmer
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