Comments on: Parsing spooled File.

By: tomliotta

tomliotta — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:23:22 +0000

I have a hard time understanding why “parse a spooled file” is a solution at all. Why not go to the data that was used to spool the file in the first place?

In any case, given “I’m from the Unix world..“, I’d think you’d be interested first in the catsplf Qshell utility.

Tom

By: jplamontre

jplamontre — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 12:59:43 +0000

Why don’t you write your parsing tool with C ?
C is one of the 4 compilers of WebSphere Dev, others are CL, RPG & Cobol.
don’t be confuse by the word websphere, I speak of writing classic progs (C or CL or RPG) on green screens.

And I have a tool to run SQL in CLP : http://jplamontre.free.fr/AS400/EXECUTESQL.htm

By: jaicee

jaicee — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:01:16 +0000

If you need to analyze things on the fly, then using Query or Interactive SQL (provided you have it) is the easiest way. But if you are used to writing in C and can write CL programs, you shouldn’t have a problem programming in ILE RPG when necessary, especially if you code in /free format. It’s a very capable language.

In fact, if the spool file is being generated by a program on your system, you might want to consider writing the data to an externally defined physical instead of or in addition to the spool file. Then you could use Query or SQL (or write other programs) to analyze the output.

Many ways to “get there”… Drive safe! B)

BTW, if you don’t have Interactive SQL, there is a free utility you can download (can’t remember where) that uses a QM Query wrapped in a CL command. That would allow you to execute SQL statements from a command line or from a CL program.

By: saratusthra

saratusthra — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 09:23:11 +0000

Pierre
You could use the CPYSPLF command to copy it to a physical file, get to the attributes (column names) of the SPLF and extract its data from a CL program.

Good luck!