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What are Spool Files? Spooled files on an IBM i System (AS400/iSERIES) are a way to manage output data for printing or processing. They can contain basic text layouts of printed pages, or complex PDF style data streams. Here’s how they work: So, IBM i Spooled Files are virtual printouts, helping you manage input and output …
IBM Tips on Cleaning Up QSPL Storage To manage and clean up QSPL storage on IBM i systems effectively, here are some best practices: IBM offers some great advice: By following these tips, you can help ensure that your IBM i system’s QSPL storage is managed efficiently and remains free of unnecessary clutter. Obviously, always …
To save IBM i spooled files, you have a few options: Using Native Commands: Save All Spooled Files on the System: Change the defaults for the system save using the SAVE menu. Go to GO SAVE and select option 20 to define save system and user data defaults. You can use the Save menu option …
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QSPGETF AND QSPPUTF APIs AND COMMANDS
IBM Knowledgebase item 8011926 describes two APIs that are undocumented in the AS/400 manuals. The two APIs, Get Spooled File (QSPGETF) and Put Spooled File (QSPPUTF), copy spool files to and restore them from physical files, respectively. The advantage of QSPGETF and QSPPUTF over the well-documented Copy Spooled File command (CPYSPLF) is that the APIs are able to copy Advanced Function Printing Data Stream (AFPDS) and Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IPDS) spool files, whereas CPYSPLF cannot.
You can call the QSPGETF and QSPPUTF APIs directly, or you can call them using command wrappers over the APIs.
The QSPGETF API call below saves spool file QPRINT to database file SPOOLDB in USER1LIB library, member MBR1, where the spool file number is 1 and the spool file job is 010160/user1/dsp03:
CALL PGM(QSYS/QSPGETF) PARM(‘QPRINT ‘ ‘SPOOLDB USER1LIB ‘ ‘DSP03 USER1 010160′ X’0001’ ‘MBR1 ‘)
...Yes thats right. *SPLFS. IBM Spool Files. I sample several spliffs every day, so I want to keep them secure: Spool files and Printer security Question: I want to set up user profile who just can display spool file but who can not delete it. Answer 1. Spool file security is quite a bit different …
Recently at a client site, I heard a monotonous and really quite annoying sound: tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,TAP… tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,TAP… tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,TAP… tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,tap,TAP… coming from the adjoining Dilbert cubicle.
This prompted me to ask what he was doing. He reluctantly moaned that “I have to move all these spool files to another output queue and their are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them”
I looked quizzically until I realized he was in WRKSPLF on the green screen and was manually selecting each and every spool file with a 2 before paging down for the next screen, for as many screen as was needed, he then planned to change the output queue.
Wow!
Loads of time wasted doing a manual task when the tools to move the entire output queue are already right there in Windows but just didnt know about it.
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