RE: Saving and restoring spooled files

Use the QSPGETF and QSPPUTF print utilities.

The above are not supported and will be removed from i5/OS. Suggest you
refer to the IBM Technical Database:

Caution: GETSPLF and PUTSPLF (and the QSPGETF and QSPPUTF programs they
use) are not Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). They are
unsupported utilities used to copy spooled files to a database file and
back again for the sole purpose of sending the spooled file to the
Rochester Support Center without having to do a remote signon. These
utilities are not intended for saving and restoring or archiving operating
system spooled files and are not guaranteed to restore the spooled file
with 100 percent fidelity. Therefore, they should not be used in a
production environment. If an operating system spooled file cannot
successfully be copied to or from a database file using these utilities,
IBM is under no obligation to diagnose nor fix these utilities.

Furthermore, GETSPLF and PUTSPLF will be removed from the operating system
in a future release. A new procedure will be created for the Rochester
Support Center to retrieve spooled file information from a customer's
system.

To write a program that copies operating system spooled files to and from
database files, refer the Get Spooled File Data (QSPGETSP) and Put Spooled
File Data (QSPPUTSP) APIs in the AS/400 System API Reference (SC41-5801).
The QSPGETSP and QSPPUTSP APIs can be used to copy an operating system
spooled file to a user space and back and the program can copy the data
stream from the user space to a database file and back again.

Brian Parkins





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