I've not looked recently, but I wonder if the free Programmer Tools have something - thought there were some SPLF things there. 5799-PTL is the LPP ID. Current version is at V5R4 - sigh! Just looked - seems to be nothing there - there's another set of free tools - I thought it had some of the ATK stuff that IBM uses.
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hi Dan,
In recent releases QShell has a 'catsplf' utility that can be used to
read a spooled file (which in turn could be piped to the grep command.)
Unfortunately, I don't think this existed at V4R5. (Though, it might
be worth going into QShell and typing the catsplf command to see if it
exists.) It definitely exists at 7.1, however....
$ catsplf -j 123456/MYUSER/MYJOB SPLFNAME SPLFNO
You would need to get a list of the spooled files, though, you'll need
the jobid, spooled file name and spooled file number to use catsplf (or
CPYSPLF for that matter.) A simple way to do that in a one-off program
might be to use WRKOUTQ command. If you run this via QShell, it'll
automatically take the *PRINT option and redirect the spooled file to
the screen, so from QShell, you'd do
$ system 'WRKOUTQ OUTQ(The-OutQ)'
You'd then need to write a loop to spin through the output of that
command, which would be pretty easy to do in a shell script.
-SK
On 7/10/2013 2:06 PM, Dan Kimmel wrote:
V4R5. I need to parse the data in 36,000+ spooled files. One time
deal. Any suggestions how I could quickly make them all parseable?
One thought is to set up a remote outq to an outq on a V7R1 box and
print them all there using the TOFILE attribute somehow and then GREP
them in QSH.
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