>I'm not seeing how to obtain the spool files with at least one block on >the pack (from SPOOLCHN).
What you really need is the SPFPACK package from the download library. SPFPACK uses SPOOLCHN and RXDASD, so you'll have to download those as well. The description page includes an explanation of how to remove the files from the volume and restore them to other spool volumes. http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?SPFPACK John Franciscovich z/VM Development