The trick to doing SPOOL offloads for new system implementation and such is not
to erase the original stuff. This way if difficulties are encountered in the
reload all your original junk is still in place:
OFF1.JT DISP=KEEP,WS=(/)
OFF1.ST DISP=KEEP,WS=(/)
OFF1.JR WS=(/)
OFF1.SR WS=(/)
OFF2.JT DISP=KEEP,WS=(/)
OFF2.ST DISP=KEEP,WS=(/)
OFF2.JR WS=(/)
OFF2.SR WS=(/)
OFF3.JT DISP=KEEP,WS=(/)
OFF3.ST DISP=KEEP,WS=(/)
OFF3.JR WS=(/)
OFF3.SR WS=(/)
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Rick Fochtman
Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 3:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Any gotchas going from 1.4 to 1.9?
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>I didn't do an offload-reload because I've heard too many horror stories about
>corruption in spool files. A friend did an upgrade wth offload-reload and
>spent
>most of the following week trying to recover from the damage. It never was
>quite right and management just decided to deal with the loss.
>
>
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Spool Offload and Reload are MUCH better than they were years ago, and
cleaner. But you've absolutely
GOT to read and understand the parameters involved, or you might suffer
a data loss. That's where many,
if not most, users get into trouble with this facility.
We've used it many times, with nary a oroblem, when returning from DR
tests and doing the various "post mortems"
to see what we can do to improve the process. Worth its weight in
platinum. (Better than gold.) :-)
Rick
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