how to dump all of an output queue

I want to daily take all the spool files in qezjoblog and dump them to
a PF to which I will go and move over to a pc for if we have to track
thru anything.

I want one file, I don't care about control characters as I don't plan
to dump it back. If I get them, I can either filter them out with a
program, etc. so it is not a big deal. formatting is not either as
this is a copy of the logs in case I have to see what "john doe"
messed up two weeks ago and didn't tell anyone about.

Is there an easy to do this?

I would probably create a folder for the day and use iSeries Navigator
to move all job logs inside.


On Aug 17, 8:35*pm, trans am kid <goo...@miamicomputer.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I want to daily take all the spool files in qezjoblog and dump them to
> a PF to which I will go and move over to a pc for if we have to track
> thru anything.
>
> I want one file, I don't care about control characters as I don't plan
> to dump it back. If I get them, I can either filter them out with a
> program, etc. so it is not a big deal. formatting is not either as
> this is a copy of the logs in case I have to see what "john doe"
> messed up two weeks ago and didn't tell anyone about.
>
> Is there an easy to do this?[/color]

If you're interested in a commercial solution, my SPLTOOL product will
do this ([url]http://www.bvstools.com/spltool.html[/url]).

There is a command named SPL2STMFB (Spooled File to Stream File Batch)
that allows you to convert and merge multiple spooled files at once. As
long as you clean out the output queue after each day (so you won't get
duplicates) it should work fine.

Otherwise you could also use the date ranges on the command to get all
reports for a certain day from a specific output queue (and not get
duplicates).

It could merge them all and create text, pdf, html or rtf files from
them which would be stored in the IFS and easily moved to your PC.

If you have an FTP server running on your PC you could use the SPL2FTPB
(Spooled File to FTP Batch) command to convert and FTP them all in one step.

Brad
[url]www.bvstools.com[/url]

trans am kid wrote:[color=blue]
> I want to daily take all the spool files in qezjoblog and dump them to
> a PF to which I will go and move over to a pc for if we have to track
> thru anything.
>
> I want one file, I don't care about control characters as I don't plan
> to dump it back. If I get them, I can either filter them out with a
> program, etc. so it is not a big deal. formatting is not either as
> this is a copy of the logs in case I have to see what "john doe"
> messed up two weeks ago and didn't tell anyone about.
>
> Is there an easy to do this?[/color]

On Aug 17, 5:35*pm, trans am kid <goo...@miamicomputer.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> I want to daily take all the spool files in qezjoblog and dump them to
> a PF to which I will go and move over to a pc for if we have to track
> thru anything.
>
> I want one file, I don't care about control characters as I don't plan
> to dump it back. If I get them, I can either filter them out with a
> program, etc. so it is not a big deal. formatting is not either as
> this is a copy of the logs in case I have to see what "john doe"
> messed up two weeks ago and didn't tell anyone about.
>
> Is there an easy to do this?[/color]

Not sure if you would find this easy but I would probably use the
QUSLSPL API to list the spool files in QEZJOBLOG and then roll through
them doing a CPYSPLF to copy these spool files to a physical file
(specifying *ADD) and then when finished processing all spool files I
would copy that physical file to a stream file on the IFS using
CPYTOSTMF.

HTH,

Thad Rizzi

trans am kid wrote:[color=blue]
> I want to daily take all the spool files in qezjoblog and dump
> them to a PF to which I will go and move over to a pc for if we
> have to track thru anything.
>
> I want one file, I don't care about control characters as I
> don't plan to dump it back. If I get them, I can either filter
> them out with a program, etc. so it is not a big deal. formatting
> is not either as this is a copy of the logs in case I have to see
> what "john doe" messed up two weeks ago and didn't tell anyone
> about.
>
> Is there an easy to do this?[/color]

A quick & dirty interpreted code example that can probably be
understood and easily modified, thus no compiling, plus no HLL coding to
the spool APIs [even if that is much more appropriate]:
[url]http://groups.google.com/group/comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc/msg/0f334fdb254a1ad4?dmode=source[/url]

Be sure to read the P.S., restrictions, and alluded caveats [i.e.
must customize code for installed release & language]. I believe that
the /screen scraping/ comment was in response to someone mentioning
coding a macro in an emulator. Presumably the requirements in this case
would have the TOMBR() become fixed instead of incremented by the
/mbrnbr/ variable, and the MBROPT(*ADD) added to the CPYSPLF coded in
the /address command/ in the /do while/ loop of the REXX example given
in that archived message.

Regards, Chuck