Carl McNamee wrote:
> Actually what I was after is a bit more complicated than what I
> communicated.  I would like to find the $STDLIST for a job by jobname and
> then be able to scan the spool file for a particular string.  Finding the
> spool file is easy enough but how can I grab the DFID and use it in
> something like grep?  Also, since the $STDLIST will likely be open by a
> running job will accessing it be a problem?

See http://www.bixby.org/ftp/pub/mpe/mailspf.ci for a CI command file that
essentially does all of the things you need to learn for your spoolfile
scanner.

MAILSPF does a :LISTSPF, parses the output to extract the individual spoolfile
IDs, then ends up calling CAT.HPBIN.SYS to copy the spoolfile output.  It would
be just as easy to call GREP.HPBIN.SYS instead of CAT.

This will work for spoolfiles that are still being created too.
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