Re: splitting a spool file

For what it may be worth:

Is the spool file is all text, no overlays or embedded pictures? I once had a situation where the scheduled spool file had various sections with data results from different departments or something (don't remember exactly), and they wanted separate sections to go to different people.

I just used CPYSPLF to a data file and then wrote a program that looked for certain keywords and combinations from the pages to copy to each its own spool file.

-Alan


On 4/11/2022 9:55 AM, Szymon Nawrocki wrote:

Hi All,

I have a spool file which is too large to be handled by DSPSPLF command.
There is no possibility to change the "creation process" of a spool file so
the idea is to split created spool into several smaller ones.
Because of performance and time limits, it should be done automatically with
APIs .

I am able to use QSPGETSP API to retrieve data from the existing spool and
then use it as a source to QSPPUTSP API as long as it is the same, newly
created spool (first new).
When I try to put the next data packet to the next spool (second new), it
seems to be corrupted.
It is probably the way the buffer data (format SPFR0200) should be altered
before it could be put with the QSPPUSP, but I cannot figure out what
changes have to be made.

Any idea what I should check or maybe someone had similar problems (or has
an example how to do it ) ?

Kind regards
Szymon Nawrocki


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