Re: CPYSPLF to Database File surprise

[david.kahn@xxxxxxxxxx]

Evan Harris <spanner@ihug.co.nz> wrote:

>Eventually we found it *in* a database file with the same name as the
spool
>file was meant to have ! Formatting etc was exactly as the spool file
would
>have been.
>
>He had created a physical file with the same name as the spool file and
>RECL(132) at some stage to receive the CPYSPLF data and when he ran the
>program that normally created the spool file it seems that OS/400 had "cut
>out the middle man" and written the data directly to the database file.

Evan,

He was working manually and "at some stage" had created the physical file.
My guess would be that that was the first time he ran the CPYSPLF. He then
deleted the spooled file, got confused and started over. Do you have a
joblog or audit trace to show precisely what manual commands he entered? If
not you should suspect human error every time rather than believe that the
operating system has somehow rewritten itself. When someone tells me what
they did I never, never, never take it at face value. Doesn't mean they're
lying necessarily, just that humans are not very reliable.

Dave Kahn, ABB Steward Ltd.


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