Comments on: Unreadable spool file

By: joverparas

joverparas — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:36:51 +0000

i will try to update the iSeries access once i got back in the office. and try it again. i think language incompatibility might be one factor as this reports are for a japan based company. but i did try digging up from those old reports of ours but it was not having the same issue. I’ve have tried retrieving the file from the first source but still the same result.I very much appreciate all the help guys. Thanks

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 21:15:41 +0000

Correction.. The latest service pack is now three years old, not six years. — Tom

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:22:47 +0000

It looks as if the two systems are not fully compatible or that your PC is not compatible. The literal constants in the spooled file are okay, but the data values are not. That might indicate a language or CCSID incompatibility. For example, the data values might be generated on a system that has a valid setting for QCCSID or some language system value, but the other system is set for QCCSID 65535 or doesn’t have the same language attributes. Can you retrieve a similar spooled file from the first system to your PC and view it with Notepad? — Tom

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:16:35 +0000

Before you do anything else, you need to get a decent fix pack applied to iSeries Access. Yours is extremely old and should have been updated at least six years ago. After applying the latest available for V5R4, try retrieving the spooled file again. -- Tom

By: joverparas

joverparas — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:50:29 +0000

and i mean is that we are using the objects that i restored for the development not the spool files. the spool files are needed for the some reports

By: joverparas

joverparas — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:47:57 +0000

5722SS1 V5R4M0 060210 äeäJäFäéähän¢øãnç¬ñ½ 13/02/03 15:40:30 s×ìý´ 1 äeäJäFäéähäná3 . . : F0006 F0401 F3003 F4201 á¡ã2äÝäbäJäÝäÞäì . : e¤´ý´éhnájb¤× . . . : *ALL çqãð . . . . . . . : TAP02 äLäÞäèäìäw . . . . : *MOUNTED å¥(|ç¾çS . . . . . : 351here is a sample of the things im telling you guts,i dont know if this are ASCII but i think its not but im not really sure. Iseries Access Version 5 Release 4 Modification 0 service levelS120465

By: TomLiotta

TomLiotta — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 19:26:40 +0000

…it has to be moved on the other box for it will be used for development purposes.

How can a restored spooled file be used for “development”? Why can’t you just generate a spooled file on that system and use that spooled file for whatever you are developing?

…but I can see the details I used for the restoration.

What does that mean? Where do you see them? What do you see?

In order to help in any useful way, we need to know the spooled file definitions on both systems. That needs to include the printer file definitions on both systems as well as device descriptions if specific devices are part of the printer file definitions. We don’t know if definitions that were used to generate the printer data stream on the first system will make sense on the second system.

When you say it looks “encrypted”, we need to know what that means. Show us a few dozen characters from Notepad. You said you used iNavigator and Notepad; does that mean that you used drag and drop from iNav? If it looks “encrypted”, it could be an ASCII/EBCDIC issue or it could be a printer data stream issue (e.g., AFPDS or *USRASCII) or something else.

Also, what is the iSeries Access version on your PC and what is its Service Level?

Tom

By: joverparas

joverparas — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 17:11:54 +0000

*****Yes they do run both on V5R4M0******< Does this need to be on the other box?>Yes it has to be moved on the other box for it will be used for development purposes.I will try to restore it on QTEMP and see if it will fix my problemThanks ToddN2000 for your suggestion

By: ToddN2000

ToddN2000 — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:48:04 +0000

Some times backing up and restoring on to a machine under a different release can cause issues. Are the two machines running under the same OS and release? If you are just tring to restore specific spoolfiles or OUTQ objects from the backup you could try restoring them to lib QTEMP on the machine it was backed up on. Then check it out there or move it to another work area. Does this need to be on the other box?

By: joverparas

joverparas — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 12:48:08 +0000

i only used notepad and msword 2003.but even on the machine while checking my spool file it looks the same with the notepad.