JCL to take a spool dump

srinivasan.gajapathi · New User Joined: 05 Jun 2008 Posts: 3 Location: chennai

Hi all,

I am planning to write a REXX code to take a spool (IOF) dump for a given job id

so do we have any existing IBM utilities which can be used to take a dump of given job id into a ps file.

Regards,
G Srini

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 2:18 am

Hello,

Possibly not an existing IBM utility as IOF is not an IBM product.

Suggest you look here:
www.triangle-systems.com/iofdoc.shtml

superk · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:18 pm

I'd like to help but I need to take a spool dump myself.

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 11:34 pm

Hi Kevin,

When this topic was first posted, 2 things immediatdly jumped into my mind:

1. Wonder Who will be the first to post this type of reply

2. And i refrainded from:

vimalonline · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:26 am

Pete Wilson · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 5:58 pm

There is the JES2 External Writer which backs up data from the spool but the backup format may not be what you want. You'd also need authority to issue JES2 commands.

Google JES2 External Writer, there's lots of hits on it.

Pete Wilson · Posted: Thu Mar 22, 2012 6:06 pm

Another option, have a look at ISPF option 3.8...that can get spool into a file so you may be able to do that from within REXX code somehow.

Time for a dump, I'm turtling!

Pete Wilson · Posted: Tue May 15, 2012 9:50 pm

Also look at SDSF in batch using the XDC command.