Ian, Again ... as both Phil and Shimon have indicated in more detail ... you should be able to do what you want with V/Seg-Plus.
And, again, because you license CA's VM:Spool you also have a license for CA's V/Seg-Plus which is a "feature" of CA's VM:Spool. JR (Steven) Imler CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1 703 708 3479 Fax: +1 703 708 3267 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shimon Lebowitz Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 07:11 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Peeking other machine's spool files (ala vm:spool) On 1 May 2007 at 5:34, Phil Smith III wrote: > "Ian S. Worthington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: === snip === > >?Also we'd rather like to be able to have a programming interface > >which can read the spool files, which is another thing vm:spool > >doesn't seem able to do. > > >Is anyone aware of an interface and/or cure for these? > > V/SEG-PLUS has a better SPOOL browser (he said modestly) that uses > Michael Johnson's excellent SHOW as a driver. It works currently with > screens up to 64 lines, and could do more if one wanted to do some > minor but irritating surgery. It will allow you to use a programming > interface (a SHOW macro) to read files, too. === snip === > ...phsiii > In order to use a show macro in a programmed solution (which we do a LOT of, for files in the RDR of the SVM) for spool files NOT in the SVM's RDR, I think one would need a linemode command on the order of VSPOOL SHOW <userid> <queue> <spid> <macroname> I admit to not going to check the docs right now, but I do not remember such a command. Am I wrong? Shimon -- ********************************************************************** ** Shimon Lebowitz mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] VM System Programmer . Israel Police National HQ. http://www.poboxes.com/shimonpgp Jerusalem, Israel phone: +972 2 542-9877 fax: 542-9308 ********************************************************************** **
