Re: Question about the output from SAV

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin

The output from the SAV command is not a physical file, so there is no 
format in that sense - I don't know if that is what you mean.

I googled some stuff and found this link at InfoCenter - 
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/iseries/v7r1m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Frzaiu%2Frzaiurzaiu004.htm

That has all the layout specs for the data in either the stream file or 
the user space (a user space can be thought of as a stream file located 
in the library/object file system)

So you need some program that will walk through the pointers and offsets 
as defined, to see what is the data. You CAN, of course, use DSPF 
against either the stream file or the user space (use path naming), then 
look at the data in hex and have the documentation close at hand.

There might be a member in QSYSINC/H - I took a quick look and found 
nothing obvious, but someone may know otherwise. So you may have to 
construct the data structures yourself from the documentation I cited.

Of course, one way to see it is to use the *PRINT output - you can find 
what system program produced it and see if it is an official API.

Good luck
Vern

On 1/12/2012 12:00 PM, Marvin Radding wrote:
> I am able to save objects to a tape with the outputs as described in the
> help for the SAV command. It is not readable except by program but I
> don't know the format. Does anyone know where I can find the layout for
> the format of the output from the SAV command? I have looked at the
> documentation on IBM but I am not able to find any link to the format.
> HELP!
>
> Marvin