Posted by Bob A on May 31, 2012 at 05:51:28: Uploaded files: 2
I am testing the ARCHIVE function of SPOOL files to either PDF/TXT before we upgrade to Comet/32 and lose access to the SPOOL files
the formats of the generated names are different, as can be seen in the dumps of the indices in the attached .csv files
TXT: "CRPUPD 20100513 (T00) [TXTARCHX-0000000001].txt","CRPUPD"
PDF: "CRPUPD (T00) [PDFARCHZ-0000000001].pdf","CRPUPD"
I prefer the TXT format for both as the date greatly helps the sorting
one small comment would be that the node is in lower case in the PDF index and in upper case in the TXT index. to be sure, it's a small annoyance.
a possibly significant problem is the following... I archived the first 100 SPOOL files to both TXT and PDF... in the end, I had 100 TXT archived and only 94 PDF archived files. this was done on a TEST system, where it was the only thing running. there was no competition with writing to SPOOL files.
Figuring out which files were dropped in the conversion would be trivial if the original SPOOL file name were saved... however, this is not done.
It was in planning a strategy for comparing the generated names to find the missing 6 files that I had to examine the indices in the two archives. In the course of that I discovered the discrepancies with the two name formats.
To be sure, the availability of the new #CFILES and the ability to dump to either .CSV or .XML does make things a little easier.
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