David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Related idea: I think a very useful addition/requirement to SPXTAPE >would be to add a (STREAM option to SPXTAPE that presented the data as a >CP IUCV service or accepted an IUCV connection to a service and wrote >that data to spool. One could then connect a simple pipeline to the IUCV >service and write to tape/disk/network socket/whatever the pipeline >wanted to do with the output. The metadata for the spool file could >easily be added to the stream (similar to the method used by DISK DUMP >or CARD DUMP) and read on restore.
Hmm...well, it wouldn't be (STREAM since it's a CP command, and CP commands don't use parens for options. But it seems ironic to suggest backing up spool files to spool; I think it would be simpler to do what V/SEG-PLUS does, and back them up (really just copy spool data pages) to virtual memory -- then the data could be written wherever you'd like. ...phsiii
